Enabling understanding
We, as analytics professionals, often know what needs to be done, but the analytics team either does not want to do the work, because they have plenty of other work to do, or they think that the results are obvious and the further decomposition is not needed to understand the deeper dynamics and the driving forces underlying the high-level results. In the majority of cases, the data scientists rationalize their reasons for not wanting to undertake the further decomposition work because they can already see and understand the dynamics without the further effort, but the business users – the sponsor, who has to explain the project, value, and the need for change to the executives, and the subject matter experts who have to support the sponsor and also implement the required changes – do not understand the core dynamics at a level where they can change the operations in a meaningful way that maximizes value realization for the business as a whole...
