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Key benefits

Learn to create an operationally effective advanced analytics team in a corporate environment

Select and undertake projects that have a high probability of success and deliver the improved top and bottom-line results

Understand how to create relationships with executives, senior managers, peers, and subject matter experts that lead to team collaboration, increased funding, and long-term success for you and your team

Description

In Building Analytics Teams, John K. Thompson, with his 30+ years of experience and expertise, illustrates the fundamental concepts of building and managing a high-performance analytics team, including what to do, who to hire, projects to undertake, and what to avoid in the journey of building an analytically sound team. The core processes in creating an effective analytics team and the importance of the business decision-making life cycle are explored to help achieve initial and sustainable success. The book demonstrates the various traits of a successful and high-performing analytics team and then delineates the path to achieve this with insights on the mindset, advanced analytics models, and predictions based on data analytics. It also emphasizes the significance of the macro and micro processes required to evolve in response to rapidly changing business needs. The book dives into the methods and practices of managing, developing, and leading an analytics team. Once you've brought the team up to speed, the book explains how to govern executive expectations and select winning projects. By the end of this book, you will have acquired the knowledge to create an effective business analytics team and develop a production environment that delivers ongoing operational improvements for your organization.

Who is this book for?

This book is for senior executives, senior and junior managers, and those who are working as part of a team that is accountable for designing, building, delivering and ensuring business success through advanced analytics and artificial intelligence systems and applications. At least 5 to 10 years of experience in driving your organization to a higher level of efficiency will be helpful.

What you will learn

Avoid organizational and technological pitfalls of moving from a defined project to a production environment

Enable team members to focus on higher-value work and tasks

Build Advanced Analytics and Artificial Intelligence (AA&AI) functions in an organization

Outsource certain projects to competent and capable third parties

Support the operational areas that intend to invest in business intelligence, descriptive statistics, and small-scale predictive analytics

Analyze the operational area, the processes, the data, and the organizational resistance

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Jaishankar M Menon Aug 17, 2020

This book is a wealth of practical advice on how to build an influential Analytics and AI team within organizations. If your organization has begun to embrace the need for data driven analytics to stay competitive, this book is a must read! I have witnessed first hand, in my own 30 year career in IT, numerous times where analytics teams have failed to deliver on their promise. This book explains carefully, in simple prose, the many pitfalls that must be avoided before the Analytics Center of Excellent (COE) can become a successful and valued part of an organization.Every aspect of building an analytics team is covered in this book, from the type of leader that is needed; to the traits of successful team members; how to find, recruit and retain the best talent; how to choose projects that have the best chance of success; the importance of constant and continual engagement with the various stakeholders including the Executive Sponsors; the best place within an organization where such a team should report to have the best chance of success; how to prepare the functional areas within a company for the needed change that analytics teams might recommend; even how to deal with the changing nature of jobs and work within organizations.Analytics will change all our lives and is such an important topic. The book is well organized and is easy to read. Best of all, I love the way real-life examples are used throughout the book to illustrate important points. The author's many many years of experience shine through in every chapter and with every real-world example. From my own perspective, if I could have read this book 3 years ago, I might have saved a few analytics projects I was involved in that ended up going awry.The journey to success in analytics is not an easy one - I highly recommend you use this book as a guide to help you on your own journey.

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Cynthia M. Howson Oct 18, 2020

John Thompson’s Building Analytics Teams is the must read book of 2020 for any leader aiming to leverage data and analytics for bigger business impact. John combines his decades of expertise in this space, research, anecdotes from real world customers, and humor to make this an approachable and actionable read.A few of my favorite nuggets of wisdom:Orignal sin - putting advance analytics and AI in the technology department (and why analytics is so very different from other information systems projects)“Organizational change is gated by the amount of change individuals can understand and assimilate.” ... the most successful AI and analytics programs combine people change management in the planning.Bias, ethics, teaching the next generation to love data and analytics and to think critically about data in context

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Joseph Pistrui Aug 26, 2020

John has struck a blow for analytics teams as critically important "know-how" units within the organization, and has show us a pathway for building the team from day 1!

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Gokula M. Jul 25, 2020

Data Analytics has reshaped our lives in the past decade and now is even more important for enterprises to get it done right as we are adapting to the new world of digital transformation. The key ingredient to the success in data and analytics is the brains and team behind it. And it has been one of the biggest challenging question – how does an enterprise build an effective analytics team. There are a lot of questions to answer:1. What makes an analytics team different from others?2. How does onea. recruit, manage and retain the right analytics talent?b. build and grow an effective and high-performing analytics team?c. develop leadership skills and collaboration in the team?3. How does one manage executive expectation?4. How does the team engage with the executive team?5. How does one select winning projects and build the analytics?6. How does one productionize analytics?7. How does one manage ethical dimension to AI/Data in projects?And finally, we all want to get insight into the future of analytics.If you are struggling with any set of these questions, I highly recommend the one and only book Building Analytics Team by John Thompson. John has distilled his life long experiences into this book and provides incredible practical knowledge that is essential in building effective analytics team. I thoroughly enjoyed his book.

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Building Analytics Teams: Harnessing analytics and artificial intelligence for business improvement

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