Conflicts of interest can do significant damage to an analytics practice. It doesn’t take much for conflicts of interest to occur and in many cases all it takes is the perception of one. What are the potential conflicts of interest that an analytics...
Many organizations view teams and divisions in very basic terms. They are either profit centers or cost centers. Profit centers are those parts of the organization that have direct impact on revenue while cost centers are essential parts of the...
Analytics teams are realizing that it’s no longer good enough to just check boxes to show value. They need to show how the organization benefits from both the team in place and the tools that have been implemented. Analytics practices need to evolve...
It’s often stated that “data is the new oil’ and while that may be true, it oversimplifies the value of data. Data by itself isn’t inherently valuable. The value comes when it is properly collected, processed, refined, and injected into the right...
The value a team produces isn’t always apparent. This is why it is critical for individuals and teams to ask themselves about the value they produce. As discussed in previous episodes of the 33 Tangents podcast, the value of analytics is not usually...
As industries and organizations continue to recover from the covid pandemic, providing value is critical. This is value provided by companies to their customers as well as the value provided by teams within those companies. What does it mean to show...