All Analytics Academy: Bringing Business Talent Onboard

One of the lessons learned by many organizations over the past few years is that there are few candidates for data science roles that offer the deep technical skills that an analytics team requires as well as rich business and industry experience. A growing number of companies look for a combination of those diverse skills not in a single team member but in two or more candidates. The experienced business person may serve as the client-facing presence for the team, while sharing their knowledge and helping to shape the technologist's portfolio of business skills. However, that business leader also has to acquire a working knowledge of analytics technology if they are to be a valuable team member.

Booz Allen Hamilton's Steven Mills and Ezmeralda Khalil present their second session in the All Analytics Academy: Build a Successful Analytics Team program, as they look at how experienced business professionals can round out the analytics team's skillset. .

In this session you will learn:

• How to identify the business skills that your analytics team needs
• Best practices for recruiting experienced business people who have an affinity for analytics
• About the options for training business-minded people in the core elements of analytics and data management technologies
• What roles those business people can fill in the team environment

The series All Analytics Academy: Build a Successful Analytics Team continues through November.