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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

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Business Process Management

Author (1):

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

Where is the value in a project?

As I noted at the end of the Introduction section of this book, I am endlessly curious about all things – all people, anthropology, psychology, processes, products, history, science, economics, and more. One of the problems with being intrigued by a wide range of topics is that you may allow the analytics team to chase down projects and areas just because they are fun to learn about; this is not a good idea.

Of course, there will be topics and subjects that are tangentially related to the business problems and challenges that you and your colleagues are facing, and running down a few wild ideas never hurt anyone, but if it is a regular occurrence, the productivity of the team, and your credibility, will suffer.

It is always good to place context around analytics and analytics projects in the early stages of a relationship with an executive and business sponsor. They have pet projects and personal interests too. Recently, I was in a meeting...

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