Shop Talk Series
April 05, 2024
All companies want to be data-driven and leverage their analytics into better decision-making and action to improve business performance. Companies build many dashboards, but the business still struggles to understand their performance and take action to improve performance. Rich and Wayne will discuss how companies can turn analysis and insight into action by utilizing various approaches to root cause analysis.
You Will Learn:
Why is it important to understand the root cause
How the Balanced Scorecard approach created by Drs.
Kaplan and Norton can assist you in understanding the root cause as well as a framework to decompose root cause
Other approaches to root cause analysis and how it can benefit the business
- A case study to demonstrate the effective utilization of root cause analysis
Consultant: Rich Fox, Senior Consultant, Eckerson Group
About the What Works Series:
The What Works Series provides data and analytics leaders practical advice about how to succeed in key areas: data strategy, data architecture, data governance, data literacy, self-service analytics, and emerging technology approaches. These interactive sessions are delivered by Eckerson Group consultants who collectively have 200+ years of data & analytics experience. The sessions are unsponsored, enabling our experts to offer the unvarnished truth about trends, tools, and technology unfiltered by software vendors.
Shop Talk Series
March 25, 2024
Most organizations accept that their data has value and should be managed as an asset, but few organizations can determine the value of their data. Wayne and Sean will discuss the benefits of data valuation and a methodology to assess the strategic and operational (non-monetary) value of data assets.
You Will Learn:
Why is it important to assess data value to support strategic planning and data management
Why is it difficult to assign monetary value to data
When and how is data a liability
What are the criteria and process for assessing data value
- How can data valuation metadata be used to support data management
Consultant: Sean Hewitt, Senior Consultant, Eckerson Group
About the What Works Series:
The What Works Series provides data and analytics leaders practical advice about how to succeed in key areas: data strategy, data architecture, data governance, data literacy, self-service analytics, and emerging technology approaches. These interactive sessions are delivered by Eckerson Group consultants who collectively have 200+ years of data & analytics experience. The sessions are unsponsored, enabling our experts to offer the unvarnished truth about trends, tools, and technology unfiltered by software vendors.
Community Forum Webinars
March 21, 2024
Data teams have achieved incremental productivity benefits by conversing with standalone generative AI tools such as ChatGPT, Bard, and BLOOM. The next step is to take advantage of data management and analytics tools that embed generative AI. These tools offer language model (LM) assistants that help manipulate and interpret domain-specific data through a conversational interface. Down the road, they will empower companies to weave generative AI into their internal applications and operational workflows.
This 3-hour virtual event is designed to help data & analytics leaders evaluate and select products that democratize data access and learn best practices for implementing them. Besides creating short lists of analytics products, it will review best practices for managing data analysts, teaching them business communications skills, and establishing compelling career paths.
Attendees Will Learn:
● Innovative approaches to implementing language model assistants
● Criteria to evaluate and select the right GenAI-embedded tools
● Ways in which language models learn, process, and generate content
● How GenAI integrates with enterprise environments
Community Forum Webinars
March 08, 2024
The demands and expectations on data and analytic leaders are accelerating. Leading teams and organizations into the possibilities enabled by generative AI requires effective leadership. Specifically, generative AI will disrupt and create opportunities across the data lifecycle, from acquisition to insights to action. Non-technical skills such as communication, empathy, and influence are no longer limited to specific roles but essential for the entire team.
This session will guide you through specific actions and suggest tools to establish your leadership baseline, priorities, and methods to execute intentional leadership growth plans using agile methodologies.
You Will Learn:
Why leadership is important and how it is acquired.
How to use a leadership development framework for assessment, planning, and action.
How the circle of control and influence empowers our leadership approach.
A case study demonstrating how intentional leadership development enhances team performance.
Consultant: Brad Schwartz, Founder and Principal, Tech Leaders Coach
About the What Works Series:
The What Works Series provides data and analytics leaders practical advice about how to succeed in key areas: data strategy, data architecture, data governance, data literacy, self-service analytics, and emerging technology approaches. These interactive sessions are delivered by Eckerson Group consultants who collectively have 200+ years of data & analytics experience. The sessions are unsponsored, enabling our experts to offer the unvarnished truth about trends, tools, and technology unfiltered by software vendors.
Shop Talk Series
February 23, 2024
Data modeling has been a data analysis and design discipline for decades, but in recent years it has become a lost art for many data teams. Attention to modeling diminished with the adoption of big data, data lakes, data pipelines, schema-on-read, and other modern data trends. Still, data modeling is a core data engineering skill—one that is deficient or missing in many data engineering teams. It is time to rediscover the lost art of data modeling.
You Will Learn:
Modern uses for older techniques – relational and multi-dimensional data modeling
Rethinking the roles of logical and physical data modeling
Higher levels of abstraction – conceptual and semantic data modeling
Sematic data models a data translators for APIs, data services, and data products
Consultant: Dave Wells, Analyst, Eckerson Group
About the What Works Series:
The What Works Series provides data and analytics leaders practical advice about how to succeed in key areas: data strategy, data architecture, data governance, data literacy, self-service analytics, and emerging technology approaches. These interactive sessions are delivered by Eckerson Group consultants who collectively have 200+ years of data & analytics experience. The sessions are unsponsored, enabling our experts to offer the unvarnished truth about trends, tools, and technology unfiltered by software vendors.
