You join a 1000 person company as the head of data. What should you do?
I would invest a a lot of time up front to understand the business(especially if you haven't worked in the industry).
I was just talking to someone at the Snowflake Summit who told me they made the mistake of recently being put in charge of a data team and their first response was "Great, what tools can I use".
If you can't answer the following questions within the first month or two, you're probably going in the wrong direction.
- What are the main drivers of the business?
- What are the main pain points of the customers?
- What does the business flow look like?
- Who is our customer?
- (What other questions would you add)
More than likely, if you're a Head Of Data, you've hopefully got the technical chops to excel in the role.
But if you don't have a strong understanding of the business, you'll either end up becoming a task taker who struggles to get out of ad-hoc requests or you'll build a bunch of fancy infrastructure that delivers nothing for the business.
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20 июн 2024
