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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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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

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

Building an Analytics Team

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

—George Santayana

Creating a highly functional and successful advanced analytics and artificial intelligence (AI) team is a unique and nuanced endeavor. On the face of it, the process of building an analytics team may not seem to be different from building any other functional or technical team, but this is where problems typically start.

In this chapter, we will discuss the organizational context in which you and your new team will be operating, and, as part of the discussion, we will outline the characteristics of the communication and collaboration interface between the analytics team and the functional/operational teams. Also, we will examine hiring in non-traditional populations that you should consider when building a high-performance analytics team.

We will examine the possibility that young professionals can play a unique and valuable role...

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