Wading into hot button territory? That's not our intent with this piece from Tim Wilson about performance measurement dashboards, but it's almost impossible *not* to write a headline that feels clickbait-y. The reality is that getting an organization aligned and focused on what *results truly matter* leads to a visualization of progress towards those results. And that's useful (even critical)! https://lnkd.in/gibDDJ3s
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We help you with the elegantly simple — but brutally hard — work of transforming people with data and software into teams with focus and insight. We help you develop a complete mastery over goals and problems. Only after problems are prioritized do we encourage you to concentrate on solutions. Finally, a people-centric approach to using research, analytics, and experimentation to deliver meaningful business results. Hyperactivity to hyper-focus.
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Sam Decker
Founder in SaaS, Immersive, & Agencies | Advisor | Investor
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Tim Wilson
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Matty Wishnow
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There is unanimity that effectively crafting and delivering data stories is critical for any organization that wants to be evidence-driven. The devil is in the details, though. What does "data storytelling" actually *mean*? In his latest article for The Focus, Tim Wilson breaks it down into three areas, including calling out why impactful data stories almost always require focus, thought, and alignment before any data is even pulled! https://lnkd.in/gweAAJdK
Once Upon a Metric: A Data Storytelling Parable
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Every business has a boatload of data that is specific to their business and their customers. That reality drives a tendency to “find the answer in our data” to any question or problem the organization faces. That, in turn, often leads to cumbersome queries, tediously manual data cleanup, a few assumptive leaps, and then a delivery of the “best answer that could be gleaned from our data stockpile.” It often also leads to a companion set of requirements for the data team to gather more data, integrate it better, and do more maintenance to keep it at the highest of quality levels (”If only we’d had…!”). Counterintuitively (perhaps), it seems like <blasphemy>organizations might actually be better off if they had NO data</blasphemy> (or periodically had all of their data wiped out) and then had to be very deliberate about what data—including what TYPE of data—they needed to collect (for a week or a month or a quarter) to address a clearly articulated need. A couple of links in the comments if you'd like to read more on this topic (now you can read it with the sound of my voice in your head; sorry about that).
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Co-founder, Head of Delivery at facts & feelings | Analytics Power Hour Podcast Co-host | Director Emeritus of the Digital Analytics Association Board of Directors
remember back when annual planning used to be fun? me neither. that was the same for all the leaders I interviewed for this article too! but that's okay, in our opinion it doesn't take too much creativity to imagine a world where leaders can take back control of this box checking exercise to make it truly valuable for their teams. let's talk about it!
What version of your annual planning documents are you on? Give this post a 👍 if it's V3 or higher! Keep in mind as you're pushing through this process that there is a way to take back control of the Annual Planning Process to make it a meaningful activity for you and your team. Read more here from Valerie Kroll on this topic. Also, we'd love to talk to you about it, be sure to reach out! https://lnkd.in/gp964wYp #strategicplanning #budgetszn
Reclaim The Value of Your Annual Planning Process
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What version of your annual planning documents are you on? Give this post a 👍 if it's V3 or higher! Keep in mind as you're pushing through this process that there is a way to take back control of the Annual Planning Process to make it a meaningful activity for you and your team. Read more here from Valerie Kroll on this topic. Also, we'd love to talk to you about it, be sure to reach out! https://lnkd.in/gp964wYp #strategicplanning #budgetszn
Reclaim The Value of Your Annual Planning Process
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ATM Machine. LCD Display. UPC Code. Let's add "Actionable Insights" to the superfluously redundant (see what we did there?) list. Scientists can't be sure of the full etymology of this phrase, but its believed the origin starts around the time business stakeholders started banging their heads against their desks when receiving more dashboards and more reports that didn't help them make a decision. Or was it when analysts cried "uncle!" when a new set of "data questions" were lobbed over the wall with no context? Either way, there's a better way. Focus on business priorities. Deep understanding of the problems hindering outcomes. Objective validation of which ideas work to shrink or solve those problems. We’d love to help create the conditions for you and your team to achieve clarity and alignment on these—this work is elegantly simple, but brutally hard, and sets you up for success! Reach out if you’d like to talk more.
So is it "actionable INSIGHTS" or "ACTIONABLE insights?" The former implies something wrong with the insights — that they are not insightful enough to rise to the level of actionability. The latter suggests the issue is not with the insight but with our ability to action them — that their utility or relationship to goals are unclear or that we lack the ability to react to or adopt the value of the insight. To be clear, and like all glittering generalities, I kind of loathe this phrase. I'm not sure it really means anything any more. But if I accept that it's both ubiquitous & (once upon a time) useful, I'd move to retire the former & more common implication. The issue is NOT with the insights themselves. Blaming the insights is like going on a fishing expedition and blaming the ocean for not being big enough or the fish for not biting enough. The problem is with the (lack of) action. Why are we fishing? What are we fishing for? Why aren't we catching fish? What will we do with that fish when we catch it? Can we either retire this tired cliche or be honest about where the emphasis lies?
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September is for making things happen. Summer is over. Holiday is around the corner, as is the end of the calendar year. A lot happens in September in anticipation of what's to come. Here's our summary of the last month and our view for the next.
September Reflections
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In our most recent article on The Focus, Board Chair Matty Wishnow breaks down the ACTUAL cost of yada yada annual planning that you might not be considering. "Why do we say “wait” and then “hurry up” and then “wait” again? Why do we accept that the actual year starts two to three months after the fiscal year begins? Why do we call fifty slide decks with more tactics than goals or budget could reasonably sustain “a plan”? Why do we celebrate approvals and launches more than (instead of) insights and improvements? We do these things because the alternative — focus, alignment and evidence — is hard to come by. Hard, but absolutely not impossible." https://bit.ly/3XUb1XZ
Why It’s Easy to Yadda Yadda Strategic Planning but Impossible to Avoid the Cost of Apathy
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"For the most part, AI does not have original and creative thoughts, nor does it know what actions can feasibly be taken. As a result, in a 'point it at the data and find actionable insights' scenario, it’s operating very much like anomaly detection!" In his latest post, Tim Wilson posits that, as enormously game-changing and powerful as generative AI is for many use cases, when it gets held forth as a way to automate the discovery of actionable insights, extreme skepticism is an appropriate reaction. https://lnkd.in/gVQSbQV6
AI for Insights? We’ve Been Here Before.
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Is analytics painful? It certainly can be. We fielded a survey to dig into the nature of that pain—from the perspective of analysts and analytics leads as well as from the perspective of their business partners. The results were interesting and, dare we say, useful! https://lnkd.in/dnU7-kYc #analytics #analyticssurvey
Analytics Is Painful (So They Say)
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