Leveraging Agile to Create Economies of Learning Mindset – Part 2 - DataScienceCentral.com

In Part 1 of the series "Leveraging Agility to Create Economies of Learning Mindset", I discussed the precarious nature of the CDO role given the expectations of building the organization's data and analytic capabilities while simultaneously delivering short-term business impact. CDO Data-to-Business Innovation Dilemma: Deliver meaningful and relevant business outcomes in the short-term while simultaneously and continuously building and transforming the organization's data and analytics assets and capabilities. The key to addressing the CDO Data-to-Business Innovation Dilemma is to view the development of the organization's data and analytics plan as a journey, not an event. But the data and analytics journey is fraught with unknown challenges and new technology and business developments that only surface as the data science and business teams move along the data and analytics journey. Like the movie "Jason and the Argonauts", your data and analytics journey must be prepared for whatever is thrown at them (like that darn skeleton army), and then pivot and adjust accordingly (Figure 1).