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Services Overview
Offerings designed to help companies make the transition to data-driven decision making, advanced analytics and AI
- Research & Advisory Network
  Access to unbiased experts, frameworks, research and case studies to maximize analytics team effectiveness and success
- Analytics Leadership Consortium
  Councils for analytics leadership teams meeting regularly to share and discuss effective strategies and best practices
- Analytics Maturity Assessments
  Actionable, diagnostic insights and recommendations for the enterprise, analytics organizations and individual contributors
- Advisory Services
  Unbiased guidance and support from IIA leaders and experts
Expertise Overview
IIA help clients build capabilities across seven areas critical to building a successful and effective enterprise analytics capability
- Organization
  Organization models, talent, analytics skills, roles & responsibilities, funding models, etc.
- Culture
  Analytics maturity, information economies, leadership, decision-making skills, ethics, etc.
- Process, Methods & Practices
  Analytics techniques, artificial intelligence, business intelligence, agile, visualization, storytelling, UX design, etc.
- Plans & Programs
  Developing an analytics strategy, building an analytics program, measurement, communication, etc.
- Demand Management
  Business alignment, operationalization, requirements definition, prioritization, ROI, metrics, etc.
- Data
  Data strategy, data management, data governance, access, privacy, data engineering, etc.
- Tools & Technology
  Analytics platform strategy, analytics application lifecycle, Cloud, Dev Ops, tool selection, etc.
Resources Overview
Example insights, frameworks and best practices derived from IIA’s experience working directly with clients
- Strategy & Thought Leadership
  Foundational concepts for analytics success
- Analytics Maturity
  Measuring analytics capability with the 5 Stages of Analytics Maturity and DELTA Plus frameworks
- Practical Insights
  Detailed explorations of specific analytics areas taken from IIA’s client only content library
- Live Events
  Regularly scheduled, in depth presentations on topics that matter from IIA executives, experts and thought leaders
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Content designed to share trends, challenges, insights and best practices from our work with clients in the broader analytics community
- Blog
  Timely, relevant perspectives from IIA leaders and experts based on our experience with clients and unique market perspective
- Podcast
  Informative and engaging discussions with successful analytics executives from leading companies
- Virtual and in person Symposiums with practitioner-driven agendas, collaboration and peer-to-peer networking
- Live Events
  Regularly scheduled, in depth presentations on topics that matter from IIA executives, experts and thought leaders
Company Overview
Over a decade of experience delivering unbiased research, advisory and assessment services designed to accelerate analytics performance
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How to Deal with Frustrating Stakeholder Situations as a Data Scientist (And Turn Them Into Opportunities)

By Tessa Xie

May 23, 2022

Culture, Leadership

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…

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How to Deal with Frustrating Stakeholder Situations as a Data Scientist (And Turn Them Into Opportunities)