Category: Management
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Business Strategies Correlated with Decentralized Data Architecture
I recently read an excellent article on implementing data mesh architecture. Initially, I was concerned about whether the project aligned with the company’s business and technical strategies. After reaching out to upper management, I was reassured that the project is indeed well aligned with their company’s strategy. The adoption of decentralized data architecture (DDA) is…
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Disparity in Hiring: White vs. BAME Data Professionals in the UK
I have been in the UK for almost a year. This article is written based on my experiences. Most of my students who came to the UK for their master’s degree concurred with my experience that the hiring process in the UK is skewed. Interestingly, most of my students are able to find employment in…
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Breaking Down Silos: Overcoming Turf Wars and Politics to Streamline Data Infrastructure
This is one of the biggest problems I encountered when helping companies build their data-driven analytics transformation. I have been helping companies solve this particular problem for more than ten years already, and I thought that by now, we should have gotten over this problem already. Unfortunately, the turf war problem is even worse in…
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Small Win, Big Gain: The Power of Small Actions in Management
I want to share this practice that I believe will make you a better manager and a better person. I might not be able to do these all the time, but I am trying. If you catch me failing these, do not hesitate to let me know. In the realm of management, we often focus…
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Challenges in Collaboration: The Problems of Working Together Between Data Teams and IT Teams
These are some challenges that I have experienced myself in consulting companies implementing data projects. I have students on both sides of the fence, and I have heard they complained about each other often enough. In this article, I correlate these challenges into ten challenges. In the modern corporate environment, the synergy between Data and…
Alex.Worapol.Pongpech 