Not enough effort has been made to understand the people using data products, what they want to get done, and the broader context in which they operate. I believe there
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Proactively sharing data insights broadly with the people in our organizations encourages engagement and collaboration, brings additional visibility to the data team, and provides a way to work in partnership
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Your team invested a lot of effort into building self-service data tools, but your stakeholders aren’t using it as much as you hoped, or in the ways that you hoped.
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Data teams aim to help the people in their organization make better decisions. Many data teams aren’t doing this as well as they could and are missing out on a
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In part 2 of this series, we learned that every new initiative a team undertakes should be accompanied by an expectation on how the initiative will perform. For example,
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As an analytics leader, my job is to ensure that my organization makes the best data-driven decisions possible. One effective mechanism that I employ — and other analytics leaders can too — is the business review program. This program is a rigorous and systematic review of the most important Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) across the company, with involvement by senior leadership in an ongoing and iterative fashion, punctuated by a regularly occurring cross-functional meeting. …
If you’re lucky, you know what it will take to get your next promotion. Maybe you need to work on communicating your analyses at the C-level instead of primarily to
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A Culture of Partnership
During my time leading an analytics and data science team, I spent a lot of time thinking about how an ideal analytics team should
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