Metadata
- Author: Eckerson
- Full Title:: What Do You Do First After Being Hired as a BI/analytics/Data Engineering Director?
- Category:: 🗞️Articles
- URL:: https://www.eckerson.com/articles/what-do-you-do-first-after-being-hired-as-a-bi-analytics-data-engineering-director-the-first-90-days-part-i
- Finished date:: 2023-04-01
Highlights
it can’t take 2 months to figure this out because, as you will see, this is just the beginning; there is a lot more work to do (View Highlight)
SWOT-type of analysis (View Highlight)
There are five “situations” you can find yourself in, (View Highlight)
Start-up (View Highlight)
Turnaround (View Highlight)
Accelerated growth (View Highlight)
Realignment (View Highlight)
Sustaining success (View Highlight)
There is likely something urgent that you and the team can turnaround quickly. (View Highlight)
You need to establish a real strategy - a Data Strategy, as this is commonly referred to these days. Your Data Strategy is based on three things:
- your mandate (mentioned earlier);
- the output of your Current State Assessment
- the Business Strategy of your whole organization. And then you need to translate this into a five-pronged strategy that defines each of the following components specific to BI & Analytics: • Demand management & process; • Organization; • Data governance; • Data architecture and platform; • Analytics architecture and platform. (View Highlight)