How to Manage Your Professional AI Practice

The corporate and government worlds are slowly starting to build true data science departments within their organization, expanding on the work of discrete teams. This is in large parts due to modern management theories about functional departmentalization (yes, it's a real word), which separates key organizational activities into groups of specialized teams. Data science just happens to be becoming as valuable to an organization as a functional IT team, or a proper HR department. The professional industry that is appearing from applied data science is slowly separating between organizational departments, similar to accounting and IT, and consulting, which provides strategy and implementation services. If we compare the future of the data science team to these two specific departments, we get a good sense of what the industry will look like in a few years.