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Building Analytics Teams

You're reading from  Building Analytics Teams

Product type Book
Published in Jun 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800203167
Pages 394 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Author (1):
John K. Thompson John K. Thompson
Profile icon John K. Thompson

Table of Contents (14) Chapters

Preface 1. Introduction 2. An Overview of Successful and High-Performing Analytics Teams 3. Building an Analytics Team 4. Managing and Growing an Analytics Team 5. Leadership for Analytics Teams 6. Managing Executive Expectations 7. Ensuring Engagement with Business Professionals 8. Selecting Winning Projects 9. Operationalizing Analytics – How to Move from Projects to Production 10. Managing the New Analytical Ecosystem 11. The Future of Analytics – What Will We See Next? 12. Other Books You May Enjoy
13. Index

Building an analytics team and an environment for collaboration

You will need to hire a leader. You will need to empower and fund that leader to hire and lead a team. I refer to this team as the Advanced Analytics and Artificial Intelligence Center of Excellence (AA&AI COE). The COE leader and team will need to learn the broader organization and to build a network of collaborators, sponsors, and allies. This new network, which we will refer to as the Community of Practice, or COP, will span the entire organization and global operations. If your organization numbers in the thousands, the AA&AI COE will be less than 50 staff members within the first two years and the COP will be a few hundred in number.

The most recent COP that I built took approximately a year to reach critical mass and was made up of between 400 and 500 staff members spanning the globe, including every operational department in the company. I stopped counting after the first 14 months, but, in the first...

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