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Awakening your data
Pete WilliamsThe Decision Playbook
@peteitalia
TO MAKE BETTER, FASTER DECISIONS
• SHARE SOME THOUGHTS ON STARTING AND MAINTAINING A JOURNEY TOWARDS ADATA DRIVEN CULTURE
• DISCUSS SOME OF THE CHALLENGES IN EMBARKING ON THE JOURNEY
• SHARE SOME PERSONAL REFLECTIONS ON DATA CULTURE AND DATA LEADERSHIP
Session objectives
A . Unicorn
Your Company
I.D. Badge
“Data Scientist – sexiest job of the 21st century”
“Globally, demand for Data Scientists is projected to exceed supply by more than 50% by 2018”
The journey to data success…
‘datalake’ of all
available data
Tools to access and
analyse data
Capable Analysts to provide insight
Without all components the ecosystem will fail
Strategic ideasand
questions for
analysis
Decision makers
who understandinformation
Data Literate EcosystemHarnessing the power of data to enable better, faster decisions
“When you want to build a ship, do not begin by weaving sails, gathering wood, reading the stars and assigning tasks, but rather awaken in the hearts of men the yearning for the vast and
boundless sea.”Antoine De Saint-Exupery, 1900-1944
Relevance
Every decision in every location made with up-to-date, appropriately segmented information
Questions vs Statements
A culture of curiosity, moving from rear view to
forward thinking
Analytical Capability
Data Science teams enabling data
capable decision makers
Being inside a data driven culture
WHAT HAPPENED NEXT...
New insight surfacedPerformance step changeCollaborationSelf sufficiency
Find a commercial collaborator
Find a business challenge
people care about
Find an analyst (prefer internal
for business context)
Choose tool and method, find the data
Work data, find insight, make
better decisions
Document the value, spread
the word
Start small…
• Start small, fail fast but be ready to scale
• As you succeed, more areas will join you
• You’ll generate an investment budget to invest in technical and analytical resources
Starting and keeping going
You try to do too much too soon
Commercial teams don’t understand - domain knowledge still overrules data
Insight is not embedded in business context or decision processes
Business politics and ownership hamper your efforts
Start small, manage expectations
“If you build it, they will not come!”. Go to them, involve them, solve for them.
Work on their opportunities, give them insight which changes their capabilities – Make Some Heroes!
Be patient! Choose the right stakeholders, let the data carry you forward
Insufficient data or poor data quality
It’ll never improve until you start to use it, so you must get going
But you’ll need Data Leadership from the top
• You need a data literate senior team• Ready to lead by example• Understand data takes time
• If not, you’ll need one of these
• Could be a temporary role?
“Data Driven Culture is not a project with an end date, it’s a deep rooted, ongoing change.
But done well, data driven decisions just become common
sense”
“When you want to build a data driven culture, do not begin by
buying the on trend technology and recruiting a team of data scientists, but rather awaken in the hearts of
commercial colleagues the yearning for insight.”
Pete Williams
Pete Williams
The Decision Playbook
@peteitalia