Summary
In this chapter, we covered a wide range of topics that set the context and provide a constructive corporate environment to begin to build a high-performing advanced analytics and AI team. As the leader of this new team, it is important that you connect with sponsors (executives), stakeholders (management), and subject matter experts (functional staff) and have a positive, collaborative, and cooperative relationship with all those groups.
It is crucial to your success and that of your new team that the executives and their downline organizations embrace analytics and engage in the process of building analytical applications that will be the leading edge of change and transformation in processes, people, products, and more.
Hiring the right people and ensuring that the leadership is oriented to an open mindset, ready for experimentation and change, are necessary environmental elements to evoke and realize the benefits of advanced analytics.
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