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Analytics State of Mind: Civic Networks Strategize on Data and Analytics Initiatives
I spend a concerted amount of time each week scanning headlines about general analytics activities, interesting research, announcements of new Chief Analytics Officers (CAOs) and Chief Data Officers (CDOs), client news, and emerging trends. One theme that has been generating increased attention the past two to three years is support
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Organizations Will Need Data Analytics to Survive
SEATTLE—HR professionals play a critical role in getting their organizations to use data and analytics strategically to compete more effectively.Jack Phillips, CEO and co-founder of the Portland, Ore.-based International Institute for Analytics, a research and benchmarking services firm for the analytics industry, urged attendees at the Society for Human Resource
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Don’t Write Your Analytics Story . . . Tell Your Story!
I’m sure you’ve seen this scenario play out many times. You or someone you know has completed a very compelling analysis that has some very important findings. The project team is excited to present the findings to the stakeholders. However, the presentation doesn’t go as expected. The executives in the
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Shiny Data & Tech - Don't Let Them Distract You From Your Customer
In the retail space, movements in data and tech can deliver immense value. They can also be immensely distracting. Leading companies capture that value and avoid the distraction by keeping a focus on their core offer (effectively solving the problems their customers need solved), while keeping a skeptically optimistic eye
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Analytics State of Mind: Training the Masses and Increasing Data Literacy in San Francisco
As noted in my previous post, this blog series highlights analytics success stories in the public sector with learnings and insights that can easily transfer to any company in the private sector. While the majority of analytics news headlines are dominated by the accomplishments (and sometimes errors) the Fortune 500
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Being Trained Is Not the Same as Being Competent
Clearly, we only want people who are competent being responsible for work that we rely on. This is true across fields, but certainly holds for analytics and data science. The newer a field is and the faster it is growing, the easier it is for the lines between “trained” and
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What The Data & Information Overload of COVID-19 Has Taught Me
As I am trying to keep up with the volume and complexity of data and information surrounding COVID-19, it dawned on me there might be a parallel to the challenge those who are less data savvy face when meeting many data and analytics professionals. This thought started, with all honesty,
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Analytics State of Mind: Tracking and Managing COVID-19
At the beginning of the year, I mapped out several of the key topics that I wanted to cover in this blog series – I wanted to highlight some of the innovative analytics projects civic analytics leaders were conducting and how it may benefit and inspire the private sector. Last
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Managing Analytics & Data Science During A Crisis
As I write this blog, we are deep into the ongoing COVID-19 crisis and lockdown. At IIA, we’ve been tracking the impacts that analytics and data science organizations have felt thus far. You can track our regular COVID-19 impact survey updates, executed jointly with Burtch Works, at this link. This
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Generals Are Always Fighting The Last War
We are, all of us, in unprecedented times. Still many folks looking for guidance on how to manage through these unprecedented times are looking for lessons in the financial crisis of 2008, and the recession that followed. Looking to 2008 and 2001, as well as (and man do I hate