Analytics leaders face numerous decisions in their multi-faceted role, as described by IIA. To excel, we’ve observed these leaders are at their best when they possess these six core mindsets:…

We have explored the disruption taking place in the healthcare industry, how the digitization of the consumer experience and analytics-AI are powering this disruption, the forces for and against change,…

Communication used to be taught as a one-way information transmission: you crafted your message, delivered it to the recipients, and assumed they interpreted it as intended. I suspect many readers…

I’ve written about and given much thought to ethics and its relationship to analytics and data science. I even worked with O’Reilly Media to compile a book on the topic…

If you are familiar with my articles, you know I’m a big advocate for stakeholder management skills. I’m a true believer that a good data scientist should not only be…

In 2018, IIA published a client-only research brief titled “Organizing Analytics.” The piece begins with how far analytics has come in recent years – the ubiquity of “big data,” the…

Scrum Guide: “Scrum is a lightweight framework that helps people, teams and organizations generate value through adaptive solutions for complex problems.” Scrum has been super for many years. I’m amazed…

The relevance of a Chief Data Officer and their organization relies heavily on how that organization views its data. If data is a ‘by-product’ of process and systems, then the…