Durable (non-technical) Strategies for Success with Analytics

Tom Huguelet

The greatest technology and most powerful platform do not guarantee success with analytics.

This session examines and enumerates the most important and durable non-technical strategies that lead to success with analytics.

Understanding why these strategies are important helps you:
– Manage risks that are not (directly) solved via technologies or products
– Communicate with clients, stakeholders, and project team members effectively
– Organizes and refines the manner in which you do use technology and platforms like Power BI to support success
– Create more potent and interesting solutions
– Have more fun doing it
– Delight your analytic stakeholders

While the current context for this session is Power BI Analytic Projects, the concepts discussed are based on over two decades’ experience designing and implementing BI solutions using various technologies for implementation. Whether you are a sole practitioner, citizen developer, or part of a multi-disciplinary team, these strategies are relevant, time-tested, and lead to greater success with analytics.

With as powerful tools as we have today, it’s tempting to get right to work building something, but the old programmers’ adage “The sooner you sit down to the keyboard, the longer you will be there.” Still holds true. Learn the questions to ask, decisions to vet, and ideas to evaluate that will powerfully point you in the direction of success with analytics.