Too Many Asks From The Business But Few Data Resources!
Businesses drown in questions but lack data resources. Focus on high-impact KPIs and driver metrics to empower analysts as strategic partners, not just data responders. Learn how prioritizing the right projects can boost growth—read the full article!
As a business, there are lots of questions that can be asked of data. Some can be answered by building thoughtful dashboards, while some require analysts' time and effort to get to the answers.
Going back to our food delivery app example from last time, there can be a ton of questions that can be asked on how I improve my time to delivery, location tracking, and many more. You will never have enough analytics resources to answer all your questions.
So, it is only logical that you prioritize the questions based on the estimated impact. The answers to some questions would drive no value. Yet, the answers to some questions may drive growth upwards up to 20-30% or 2X, 3X. Given that analysts are limited resources, you would want to answer the questions based on priority.
This, however, depends on how the business views the data and analytics resources. Do they view them as a thought partner? Or do they view them as - I ask questions, and you get me the answer tactically by writing SQL codes or building a chart?
The latter is quite common in the industry because heads of data are not able to take…
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