Metadata
- Author: The Holistics Blog
- Full Title:: The Silos of Data Organization: Data Analysts vs Business Users
- Category:: 🗞️Articles
- Document Tags:: data culture,
- URL:: https://www.holistics.io/blog/the-silos-of-data-organization-data-analysts-vs-business-users/
- Finished date:: 2023-06-14
Highlights
People) First, a mindset fix — Data Department should run themselves like a Product Organization, not an Outsourcing Team. They should be proactive about thinking how to add business values, instead of being reactive about it. They should engage with their business counterparts as equal thinking partners, rather than merely English-to-SQL translators. (View Highlight)
Where can you find good data-driven business thinkers with good data technical skills? But one should always dream. (View Highlight)
the Data Department should have put in place proper programs to systematically raise the data literacy levels of the entire org. I mentioned this last week on building a goldilocks-rule program so that the data-novice business users can “teach themselves data-driven thinking” without them even being aware of it. (View Highlight)
Third, for trivial data extraction, Data Department should put in place proper “self-serve” infrastructure and tooling, so that business teams don’t have to bother them with these constant ad-hoc questions. (View Highlight)