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Recruiting with a Mission-Driven Focus
With the difficulty in recruiting today, especially within the analytics and data science space, you need every advantage that you can get. As a result, focusing candidates on a mission-driven opportunity rather than on a task-focused job is an effective recruiting strategy. I’ll explain here what a mission-driven focus
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A Values-Led Approach to AI Ethics in a Global Business
With the rapid advancement of digital technologies, it is impossible to design perfect rules, systems, or processes to manage AI ethics. They would be outdated the moment they were deployed. Instead, data and analytics leaders would be wise to use company values as the enabler to make AI ethics actionable.
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Making Data Actionable: The Immense Challenge of Good Data Products
“Data-driven” is such a passive phrase. Who the driver is matters a great deal. When you think about data science, the image of models, algorithms, and statistical methods comes to mind. So, why, then, when you mention data science in many companies do you get the response “that’s all well
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Agile Data Science: A Step Towards an Effective Process
Managing data science projects — or more specifically engineering teams building data products — is in my experience an art form, and a mysterious one at that. Anyone who has brought a data product to life will undoubtedly have tales of the trials and tribulations of imposing a process on
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How Data Products Change the Game
Data products are all the rage these days. At times, there are trends that are more hype than reality. The trend toward data products is not one of them. This blog will discuss what data products are, why they are suddenly so ubiquitous, and how they might change the game
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On Generating Value Through Analytics and AI
I’ve just finished interviewing a large group of chief data (and analytics in most cases) officers for a report I’ll have more to say about in a month or so. But one result really struck me, and it has a lot to do with analytics and AI. The Perils of
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Building a Modern Data Strategy
Building a sustainable data strategy requires cross-organizational alignment that is difficult to achieve. In this session, Kathy Koontz, former Director of IIA’s Analytics Leadership Consortium, will explore people and process considerations an organization should account for as it begins a journey to build a sustainable data flywheel: including the power
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ALC Insights: Funding and Budget
The Analytics Leadership Consortium’s (ALC) Q3 theme on Funding and Budgets focused on three aspects: establishing and justifying value, sourcing funds, and allocating budget. While many valuable points came through in our confidential discussions, two ideas stuck out. First, communicating good work is key and, second, it’s beneficial to operate
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IIA names Echo Logistics as recipient of 2022 ANNY Award for Excellence in Analytics
Portland, Ore. (Oct. 28, 2022) – The International Institute for Analytics (IIA), the leading independent analytics and data science research and advisory firm, named Echo Global Logistics the winner of the 2022 Excellence in Analytics Award at IIA’s Fall Analytics Symposium held Thursday, October 13, 2022, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. “Echo’s
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October: 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 why AI still needs strong oversight, how to choose the most optimal analytics projects to take on, a case study on Travelers'