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The Four Cs for Recruiting and Retaining Data and Analytics Professionals
When data and analytics professionals change jobs, more than 50% see their base salary increase by 20% or more. This data point is a reminder of the demand for top analytics talent and, most importantly, that such talent cannot be taken for granted. Talent retention emerged as a vital theme
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February: Best of the Web
Read below for a roundup of interesting sites, resources, and articles from around the web, curated and contextualized by unbiased analytics experts at IIA. Highlights include articles about using AI to enhance the customer experience, applying design thinking to analytics, building a culture that is good at experimentation, and emerging
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Creating and Delivering an Effective Data-Driven Presentation
Delivering an effective data-driven presentation to a live audience isn’t the same as discussing technical details with peers or compiling a written document. This is especially true when, as is often the case, the presentation is for a largely nontechnical audience. Entirely different ways of organizing and presenting information are
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International Institute for Analytics Announces the Launch of its Third Analytics Leadership Consortium (ALC) Cohort, to Address Key Initiatives and Priorities for the Future of Data and Analytics
Leaders from Equifax and Yum! Brands are founding members of IIA’s newest ALC cohort addressing key initiatives and priorities for the future of data and analytics. Portland, Ore. (March 9, 2022) – The International Institute for Analytics (IIA), the leading independent research and advisory firm focused on helping organizations improve
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Don't Make Data Scientists Do Scrum
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 by its success in marketing; it’s like the Kardashians of the software development management framework world. I feel the same
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Business Intelligence Maturity: The Foundation for Advanced Analytics
An organization’s competencies in descriptive and diagnostic business intelligence (BI) lay the foundation for excellence in advanced analytics, and a failure to achieve sufficiency in business intelligence can thwart an organization’s efforts to take meaningful predictive and prescriptive analytics into production. Many companies struggle to achieve BI sufficiency and continue
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Analytics Organizing Models – Where There Is No Single Source of Truth
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 demand for data science talent, analytics in the cloud – and then proceeds to diagram and discuss the pros and
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March: Best of the Web
Read below for a roundup of interesting sites, resources, and articles from around the web, curated and contextualized by unbiased analytics experts at IIA. Highlights include articles about new analytics architectures, an outline of how legacy companies can use AI-driven platforms, upcoming data science trends, how to apply product thinking
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ALC Insights: Hot Analytics Topics - Spring 2022
Members of the Analytics Leadership Consortium (ALC) come together every quarter to share and discuss some of their most pressing topics in analytics. Our highlighted topics from discussions this spring include Remote Work, Job Family Modernization, Managing Complexity, Scaling, and Ethics. Remote Work Two years into the pandemic, teams are
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Return on Commute: A New Metric to Evaluate Benefits and Cost of Remote Work
It’s no secret that one COVID trend that will remain is that of at least partial remote work arrangements for many professionals. In recent months, there has been a push for employees, including analytics and data science teams, to come back to the office at least part of the time.