[NOTES] Building a Highly Efficient Analytics Team

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Notes from the PragmaticWorks webinar
https://pragmaticworks.com/Training/Details/Building-a-Highly-Efficient-Analytics-Team

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How to build a better analytics team

Analytics teams help differentiate difference businesses.

How businesses use their data to

• optimise business process
• understand what is a “normal benchmark”
• highlight opportunities to improve (based on existing benchmarks)
• highlight new opportunities that wasn’t obvious previously (can’t see the wood for the trees)

How do we define “world class”?

• Attitude
  know that there’s always room to learn
• Aptitude
  grow your skillset to deliver measurable benefit
• Adaptability
• Acceleration

How to assess your current team?

• Build a team based on potential, not on current-skill set

Getting from today to world-class

• rate your team on the “4 A’s”
• Clean up low hanging fruit
• Hand off “chores”
• Create capacity for improvement
• Set aggressive 90-day goals
• Get creative with team activities (hack-a-thons etc)
• Create specific plans and targets
• Put your plan into action and socialize results!

Gaining the Necessary Skills

• What skills are needed?
• Data Cleansing
• Data Modelling
• Data Analysis eXpression
• Data Visualization Best Practice
  Good story telling, guiding the user through the main themes/conclusions that the data presents
• Power BI Administration
• Data Governance
• How do you gain these skills?
• Free webinars
• Blogs
• Books
• YouTube
• On-Site Training
• Web-based On-Demand Learning
  Pluralsight, Udemy
• Pushing your team
• Set goals
• By the end of the month, you should know how to…
• By the end of the Quarter, you should know how to implement …
• Find out what motivates the team
• Competition between co-workers
• Buy lunch for your team when they reach a goal
• Define Learning Paths
• What things you want your team to know, and in what order
• Other considerations
• Specialist vs Jack-of-all-Trades
• Find ways to jump start your teams experience early (Hack-a-thons)
• Value of Certifications
  Be prepared why certifications are valuable, and what was learnt, and how that matters