Cheers to the data team members making insights possible! They are highly valued everywhere I've been. Insights & better decisions are why you have a data team in the first place, but they don't have to all come from the data team.
I have a sense this seems directed to those early in their data journey or where a data culture is still lo…
Cheers to the data team members making insights possible! They are highly valued everywhere I've been. Insights & better decisions are why you have a data team in the first place, but they don't have to all come from the data team.
I have a sense this seems directed to those early in their data journey or where a data culture is still low or building. Elements of the data team shift based on the context of your individual company on where your needs are, which will shift over time. When people can't answer the easy questions they usually value the basics. As they mature they can answer those on their own, quickly. And want you to help answer the harder questions, to make them easy again :)
Investment happens to drive insights and ensure the company is making the best decisions more often. The more you can connect your data team to the strategy, and someone(s) from the team having frequent discussions with the CEO/CFO/CMO, the more valued the whole team will be.
The maturity question is interesting. I agree that it *seems* like this changes a lot as organizations mature, though I'm not sure it actually does. I think there's a sense that as organizations get more mature, the basic reporting gets more solidified and there's more "insight discovery" type work. The question I'd have with that, though, is, is that data team insight discovery work actually all that valuable? I'm not sure that it actually is; plus, if it is, it seems like it'd be much more valuable for less mature companies when a lot less about the business is known.
Cheers to the data team members making insights possible! They are highly valued everywhere I've been. Insights & better decisions are why you have a data team in the first place, but they don't have to all come from the data team.
I have a sense this seems directed to those early in their data journey or where a data culture is still low or building. Elements of the data team shift based on the context of your individual company on where your needs are, which will shift over time. When people can't answer the easy questions they usually value the basics. As they mature they can answer those on their own, quickly. And want you to help answer the harder questions, to make them easy again :)
Investment happens to drive insights and ensure the company is making the best decisions more often. The more you can connect your data team to the strategy, and someone(s) from the team having frequent discussions with the CEO/CFO/CMO, the more valued the whole team will be.
The maturity question is interesting. I agree that it *seems* like this changes a lot as organizations mature, though I'm not sure it actually does. I think there's a sense that as organizations get more mature, the basic reporting gets more solidified and there's more "insight discovery" type work. The question I'd have with that, though, is, is that data team insight discovery work actually all that valuable? I'm not sure that it actually is; plus, if it is, it seems like it'd be much more valuable for less mature companies when a lot less about the business is known.