Tag: Data Science
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Letting Data Engineers and Data Scientists Roaming Free in Strategic Planning.
Lately, I have attended several data meetups in Asia, and I have observed a problematic situation. Many upper management are letting engineers and technical people run the company’s technical strategy. This scenario is understandable as many upper managers need to gain new data technical skills and must rely on technical people for the issue. The…
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The Challenge of Building Effective Data Teams in Modern Organizations
One of the most difficult tasks that I have experienced as a data consultant is helping companies build an effective and economically sensible data team. The main reason for this difficulty is that companies do not understand the importance of building a data team systematically so that the team can grow and scale with the…
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Case Study: How a Missed Opportunity in Big Data Consultancy Could Have Transformed a Thai…
In 2012, Alex, the director of the first Big Data Engineering program in Asia, proposed an innovative idea to the university president and vice president. He envisioned starting a Big Data Engineering and Data Science consultancy under the university’s umbrella. At that time, Big Data and Data Science was a novel concept in Thailand, and…
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Design Data Products with Porter’s Five Forces
Data monetization strategy is one of the most critical data strategies for companies. One of the most wrongly implemented data monetization strategies is creating data products. An article on Demystifying Data Monetization from MIT Sloan Management Review presented two primary paths to data monetization: Internal and external. The first focuses on leveraging data to improve…
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