Recently, I read why companies are failing in their efforts to become data-driven in the Harvard Business Review. It said that 72% of Chief Data Officers believe their organization doesn't have a data culture and 92.5% of them blame their people. But I think they’re wrong. The real issue is that people aren’t using the tools that their CDOs have bought for them. That means the problem isn’t with the users, it’s with the technology they’ve been given.
I recently had the pleasure of attending the Center for Business Analytics Career Panel event at Villanova University where myself and other analytics professionals sat on a panel to discuss the future of analytics with the students.
Back in the 60s Bod Dylan sang “The Times They Are a-Changin” which has become a famous and lasting anthem of change. Bowie wrote ‘Changes’ in the 70s but it’s the “Winds of Change” from the Scorpions that plays in my head when I hear the phrase - Change is the only constant, and nowhere is this truer than in the world of tech.
There’s recently been an important debate taking place on LinkedIn around the topic of relational databases, joins and how that impacts a user’s experience with analytics.
As analytics software vendors, we need to do something profoundly different to improve how business users access, consume, and interact with data.
