Don't make all the decisions
Analytics professionals tend to be an independent lot. We are smart, driven, and can be insular and have a tendency to want to make decisions on our own and move forward quickly. We can see consensus building and group decision making as a hindrance to the speed of change and progress. Sounds like some of my past performance reviews, especially when I have worked at large companies like IBM and others.
In most cases, you and your analytics team members will know the right answers before any other people in the organization. You should: you and your team have been given the data, the resources, and the approval to examine operations, pricing, manufacturing, and more with the express purpose of improving these functional areas.
The challenge is that you and your team do not own the daily operations of those functional areas. Knowing what needs to be done is a prerequisite to action, but it does not predestine action. You and your team can know...
