Building a supportive and engaged team

What do analytics professionals want their working days to look like? What do professionals who are engaged in advanced analytics want from their projects, teams, and leaders? Multi-faceted and meaningful questions, those are. A bit of Yoda there for you, Star Wars fans…

Let's start with where we just arrived in the previous section. Let's begin with assessing and understanding how to lead the team that you have. You must be aware that not all analytics teams are the same. The mix of skills and abilities of team members will, to some extent, dictate the projects you can undertake, how quickly you can move, and the level of impact you and your team can have on the firm. You need to understand the current technical, professional, and soft skills of the team and the teams that are ancillary to the core analytics team.

Traditionally, analytics teams were comprised of a significant number of highly autonomous individual contributors...