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Staffing, Roles, and Careers


Building Your Big Data Analytics Staff

Finding analytics talent is increasingly difficult, so companies are looking to build skills from within. Here are strategies you can use in your own enterprise.

Marketing IT In-House: Don't Assume Too Much

Keep marketing your BI team because user management will not automatically see you as the technological authority.

Data Digest: Training Data Scientists, Analytics Education for Employees, and the Future and Streaming Analytics

Long-term strategies for creating more data scientists, alternate training for data analytics, and basic opportunities of streaming analytics.

Strange Love: How Marketing Will Learn to Stop Worrying and Start Loving IT

Increasingly, IT is involved as a partner with marketing, not a dictator.

Learning to Lose Control

Organizations must recognize when an overly restrictive governance regimen is an impediment to innovation -- particularly to innovation that has the potential to accelerate business intelligence or analytical development.

IT in Crisis: Q&A with Jill Dyché

The prevailing phenomenon that seems to be the source for all of IT's problems can be boiled down into a single, simple sentence.

Beware the Liaison: Q&A with Jill Dyché

Is acting as a liaison between IT and business users a good idea? Jill offers three conditions before you agree to serve in such a position

Money-Making Analytics (Part 4): Why Collaboration is the Critical Success Factor

How to drive collaboration and training on your money-making analytics project. Now that you’ve finalized strategy, selected technology, and designed your analytics to be action oriented and simple, this final step will help you set the right cadence and collaboration across the organization.

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