Technical experts often get frustrated when business leaders don’t inherently “get it,” while non-technical leaders feel equally frustrated when data experts throw a bunch of numbers at them.
And your culture definitely won’t change if data-driven decision-making is relegated to the “few” at the expense of the “many.”
A good data strategy is not about tools and architecture. It’s about leveraging the data I have or can get to help the business accomplish its mission.
I live in the weird and exciting gray area between the leaders who want answers and the people doing algorithm development and data cleansing—the stuff that makes your eyes glaze over.
