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Building Analytics Teams

You're reading from   Building Analytics Teams Harnessing analytics and artificial intelligence for business improvement

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800203167
Length 394 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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John K. Thompson John K. Thompson
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Preface 1. Introduction 2. An Overview of Successful and High-Performing Analytics Teams FREE CHAPTER 3. Building an Analytics Team 4. Managing and Growing an Analytics Team 5. Leadership for Analytics Teams 6. Managing Executive Expectations 7. Ensuring Engagement with Business Professionals 8. Selecting Winning Projects 9. Operationalizing Analytics – How to Move from Projects to Production 10. Managing the New Analytical Ecosystem 11. The Future of Analytics – What Will We See Next? 12. Other Books You May Enjoy
13. Index

Diversity and inclusion

Your team will benefit from diversity in all aspects that you can amalgamate. Diversity in age, gender, organizational level, geographic origin, socioeconomic means, faith (and lack thereof), educational background, sexual orientation, neurodiversity, circadian rhythms, and more will make your team more effective and valuable.

Advanced analytics and AI teams are made up of a wide range of personalities, from the introverted to the highly extroverted, from the careful and thoughtful to the impulsive and innovative. Analytics teams benefit greatly from the varied perspectives that a wide spectrum of individuals bring to the collaborative environment.

Perhaps you have seen teams where the leader hires mostly people that think, act, and look like themselves. In extreme cases, this is called conative cloning and it can lead to myopic thinking and a narrow focus when approaching challenges and the resulting solutions. If you think of hiring as a continuum...

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