Smart Data Collective

OCTOBER 19, 2023

A Quick Intro to Digital Transformation Digital transformation isn’t just about switching from analogue to digital. It’s about leveraging digital technologies to revamp business processes, culture, and customer experiences. This is where the unsung heroes, IT consultants, step in. But how do you choose the right one?

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Timo Elliott

MAY 27, 2022

That can be as simply as just making sure that you provide the information people need for a decision just before they make it. And then there are Composable Applications , made up of flexible, reusable modules that help people through a series of steps towards a business outcome, including data, decisions, and actions.

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Analysts Corner

JANUARY 12, 2023

They get people with shared interests collaborating, sharing ideas and knowledge, and co-operating more. I understand now that in many places where I’ve previously worked, we didn’t have a healthy culture/community or were missing CoPs entirely! They also help support us in more quickly solving problems and retaining our talent.

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Smart Data Collective

JULY 8, 2021

There is a lot of discussion about financial institutions relying on AI technology to better serve their customers. However, they should not be passive about waiting for their bank, insurance company or other financial institution to advise them about new technology that can assist them. This will help you save money.

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Smart Data Collective

AUGUST 9, 2021

One way to use big data is to carefully study the company cultures of other successful businesses. Using Data Analytics to Better Understand the Company Culture of Other Successful Businesses. Office culture and employee attitudes are key to helping companies thrive and succeed through the years. Communication at the Core.

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Leading Agile

JANUARY 17, 2023

In execution during an Agile Transformation, it looks different depending on how the organization is going about this change. The most significant aspect of change management is that it should include the people. But you can’t do that without your people. Culture First. Training that empowers people.

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Astera

JANUARY 29, 2024

If the people working on governance handle privacy, they’ll work on identifying where private data lives, understand privacy rules, communicate to data users, and monitor adherence to privacy rules,” Albert adds. ” This statement opens a dialogue about the dual-edged nature of AI.

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Smart Data Collective

OCTOBER 26, 2023

We talked about some of the many ways that virtual reality is changing our world. In the metaverse, where people from different backgrounds and cultures come together, it’s crucial to ensure effective communication for successful customer service. billion by 2032. One of the biggest is with virtual reality.

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Smart Data Collective

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

Communication and cultural gaps. Even if you do not have communication challenges, there can still exist issues stemming from the a cultural gap. People in different countries have different attitudes towards their work, authority, words, and actions. In addition to time-zone challenges, you may encounter communication gaps.

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Smart Data Collective

AUGUST 30, 2020

Legal culture, education, and training, until recently, belonged to an earlier time, with the general legal mindset dividing the world into “lawyers and ‘nonlawyers.”. Pre-COVID-19, employers were not overly enthusiastic about remote work, because they assumed people would not really be working, when they “worked” from home.

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Timo Elliott

JANUARY 4, 2021

I’ve been working with planning and analytics teams for around 30 years, and my job was to talk about the technology aspects of storytelling, including the typical real-world barriers to success. Business people want more data than ever. We’re no longer talking about tinkering at the margins of a stable business model.

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Smart Data Collective

JUNE 3, 2021

At the same time, fears of infection and lockdown orders led customers to demand more digital interactions and online services, driving companies to speedily adopt and master the digital technologies and digital culture needed to meet client and consumer needs. Training becomes a constant.

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Smart Data Collective

DECEMBER 22, 2021

You should know that almost 70% of CIOs consider their company has changed or is currently changing its management culture to make quantitative decisions one of their highest priorities. Developing great IDB skills requires tactical moves and significant investments into processes, technology, data, and people.

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Juice Analytics

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

But it can feel like putting your fingers into holes in a dam that is about to burst. We wrote a book about it. But that isn’t what it is about. On balance, it is more about communication, people with data skills, and…perhaps most importantly…leadership and expectations to build data fluency in an organization.

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Smart Data Collective

MARCH 2, 2021

Early last year, My Customer made some great observations about the role of analytics in tracking customer trends. About a year ago, the coronavirus stepped on the scene and wreaked havoc on the world. While lockdown orders have been lifted in many states, the fear of the coronavirus causes many people to remain close to home.

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Analysts Corner

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Through a blend of research and narrative, he shows how individuals, teams, and entire organizations can cultivate a culture of continuous improvement. An organizational psychologist, Grant argues for the benefits of embracing our mistakes and the critical nature of rethinking as a key skill in today’s fast-paced environment.

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Smart Data Collective

JULY 25, 2022

We have talked extensively about the importance of taking precautions to prevent data breaches. By ensuring that different people are responsible for various aspects of a process, separation of duties makes it harder for someone to commit fraud or make an error without being detected. Prevent Fraud. Accountability.

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Leading Agile

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

” — Mike Cottmeyer, CEO LeadingAgile Video Transcript We want a culture in the organization that is safe and is collaborative and does empower people and does enable the people closest to the technology and to the customers to make the decisions. A lot of the things that I talk about really start to begin to matter.

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Leading Agile

JULY 18, 2023

If not, then we start measuring things like people trained, teams doing Scrum, or the organization’s sentiment toward Agile to tell us if we’re succeeding. Agile is all about the ability of an organization to deliver in small batches, get fast feedback from customers, and quickly respond to change.

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Smart Data Collective

AUGUST 10, 2021

Companies have to understand their customers better than they do, study their competitors and understand how cultural and global influences affect their positioning. Marketing is a hugely important department in any organization because success depends on people knowing about a product or service and wanting to buy it.

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Smart Data Collective

DECEMBER 13, 2022

The term “patient engagement” is used to describe a scenario in which patients are actively involved in making decisions about their health care and are aware of and actively participating in all aspects of their treatment, recovery, medication, and other related systems.

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Smart Data Collective

JULY 15, 2021

It’s what many people went through before the advent of the personal computer and apps that automatically categorize expenses. Data catalogs can contain snippets about the information, including its scope and how your company is using it. Self-service fosters a data-driven culture, provided the tools do not require technical knowledge.

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Leading Agile

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

On one side, you have the camp that’s all about team-based, iterative and incremental delivery. On the other side, you have the camp that sees Agile more of a social movement; this side is all about empowering the teams and building a culture or a mindset of Agility. There’s been a divide in the Agile community for a while now.

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Leading Agile

MARCH 3, 2022

Will Installing Agile Practices or Culture Make us Agile? Once we get people to adopt Agile practices and do them well, we think that will translate to doing better as an organization. . Implementing practices into teams also doesn’t enable us to first think about how to align what our teams are doing with our customers and markets.

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Smart Data Collective

AUGUST 17, 2023

It’s about feeling respected, supported, and like one is a part of something more than merely clocking in and out. Trusting people to make decisions and take responsibility for their job is an example of empowerment. Leaders set a good example by really caring about their workers’ health and work-life balance.

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Analysts Corner

MARCH 21, 2023

Unlocking agile team success: How game theory can help business analysts optimize solutions An illustration of a group of people playing a board game or a strategy game, symbolizing Game Theory’s idea of strategic decision-making. It’s not just about building software; it’s about creating a collaborative culture where everyone wins.

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Analysts Corner

OCTOBER 31, 2023

In a previous article, I invited you to dream with me about the future of how Artificial Intelligence (AI) will serve as a natural language interface for all technological applications. It’s not about predicting the future but rather designing it. Join me on this journey. If “garbage” goes in, “garbage” comes out.

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Cprime

JUNE 22, 2022

Read on to find out more about Stuart. But I’m all about teamwork. What makes Cprime’s culture different from others? What is awesome about Cprime is that we’re growing and being successful, but there’s a very flat feeling. I love the fact hat we have people from all sorts of cultures. What inspires you?

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Tableau

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Celebrate everything pop culture and fandoms while growing your data skills through DataFam Con , a Tableau Community data visualization challenge—initiatives created and led by members of the DataFam community for participants to learn, practice, and apply their data skills across a variety of topics, products, and causes. Sarah Molina.

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Argon Digital

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Not Everyone Sees the Value of Software Requirements Services Let’s talk about software requirements services. I spend a lot of time talking about software requirements with my fellow travellers, and there’s an interesting distinction between the way that people think about requirements.

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Passionate BA

MARCH 12, 2023

For example, people tried (and somewhat succeeded) flying long before they understood the science behind it. Examples include project timelines, resource availability, or constraints on the functionality or features of a product; People. It’s all about the limitations in personnel resources available for a project.

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Tableau

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

My eight years at Tableau have focused on helping people be successful with data, from quarterbacking go-to-market efforts to highlighting customer perspectives and successes, and community is central to that work. And they enable that cultural sea change with community. Better together: Data Culture + data communities.

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Leading Agile

DECEMBER 19, 2022

What really made Agile work in the early days was the cross-functional team of people who collaborated in the room with their customers, building products and constantly iterating and testing. No amount of culture change or practices will work if the underlying systems are not there first. How We’ve Adapted Our Approach Over the Years.

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Leading Agile

APRIL 19, 2023

If you were king for a day, and you could change the hearts and minds of the people inside your organization over night; what would you do next? A lot of people believe that Agile Transformation starts with culture because it feels like a culture problem. It’s not that leaders are anti-Agile. Hey, everybody.

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Tableau

DECEMBER 19, 2023

One was a spooky supernatural comedy (that scared the heck out of me but I loved it anyway), and the other was a chaotic musical about two blues musician brothers. Movies hold a unique place in culture. I do—because, to me, that’s what movies are all about—bringing people together. Those Betamax cassettes were well-loved.

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Agilemania

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Are you curious about what facilitation is and how you can use it in an Agile team setting? Have you ever wondered about the role of a facilitator in guiding a group towards a specific outcome while maintaining neutrality? Agile is not just a set of practices or techniques for software development, it’s also a culture change.

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Juice Analytics

MARCH 30, 2021

The foundation of getting value from data depends on creating a data fluent culture in your organization. There are many benefits of having a data fluent culture , but what does it take to get there? Becoming data literate boils down to being able to ask and answer three questions about data: Where does the data come from?

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