Data Science In The Business: How Senior Leaders Are Defining Success
This post will give you some insights into what information your senior leadership uses to make decisions about Data Science and strategy. It will provide you with a picture of what senior leadership has been trained to focus on. Their choices will make a lot more sense once you’re done. I will also give you a few tips about how to introduce your insights and help them make better decisions.
Surveys show a disconnect between the percentage of senior business leaders who think their initiatives are succeeding and the percentage of technical leaders who believe Data Science initiatives are succeeding.
Senior leadership is getting mixed messages about what a successful Data Science initiative looks like. When Data Science teams and senior leaders measure success differently, that’s a setup for conflict. The project can succeed for the business and still generate a perception of failure.
The three primary sources of confusion are: