
Creating a Data-Driven Organization: Practical Advice from the Trenches

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Carl Anderson • Creating a Data-Driven Organization: Practical Advice from the Trenches
A key component of the role is identifying and exploiting new business opportunities. That is both an opportunity to generate new sources of revenue and take the business in new directions.
Carl Anderson • Creating a Data-Driven Organization: Practical Advice from the Trenches
To become data-driven, an organization has to leverage data as a strategic asset; and to achieve that, all parts of the organization needs some prodding, and they need some concrete examples of how data is, or could be, enriching and delivering impact.
Carl Anderson • Creating a Data-Driven Organization: Practical Advice from the Trenches
Data is powerful, but also dangerous.
Carl Anderson • Creating a Data-Driven Organization: Practical Advice from the Trenches
This may be the most impactful work that my team has done to date as it has reduced confusion, allows meaningful comparisons
Carl Anderson • Creating a Data-Driven Organization: Practical Advice from the Trenches
“Everyone in the organization should have access to as much data as legally possible.”
Carl Anderson • Creating a Data-Driven Organization: Practical Advice from the Trenches
A data-driven culture is one that respects both the power of data and the humanity of the people who are the source of that data.
Carl Anderson • Creating a Data-Driven Organization: Practical Advice from the Trenches
It is for these reasons that many organizations choose to anonymize the information that is exposed in data warehouses and business intelligence tools for reporting and analysis.
Carl Anderson • Creating a Data-Driven Organization: Practical Advice from the Trenches
I believe that data-driven organizations have to respect their users’ rights and sensibilities.