Episode Title : From Liberal Arts to Data and Analytics strategy advisor
Episode Summary:
The episode covers the professional journey of Jill Dyche from a liberal arts background to data strategy consulting founder to being an author of 4 books on data and analytics. The theme of her work as well as the books has been to extract the business value of data and technology. Jill has been able to combine both her passions of shelter dogs and analytics and apply analytics to deriving insights to increasing the adoption of shelter dogs.
Starting with a Liberal Arts degree (01:15): Starting as a technical writer at Honeywell has served Jill very well. Writing helped Jill become proficient in technical matters but her liberal arts education helped her become a good communicator of technical subjects.
Art of Storytelling (04:30): Storytelling was hot 4 years ago. There was this movement to make all data scientists storytellers tellers. But data science is a team effort. It is a collaborative effort. So if a data scientist is great at data science and having another member who can communicate well is OK.
Baseline consulting start (07:00): Came out of Teradata and decided to do something with data. Started Baseline Consulting to focus on data and analytics. And there were not many people focusing on analytics at that time. It was a fun ride.
Combining passion with profession (11:15): Jill is passionate about rescue dogs and finding a place for their rescue dogs. By digging into data, Jill and her team found insights about why people leave dogs and why certain dogs won’t be adopted. Interestingly, as they found trends, the trends changed as people acted on the trends. Today’s trends will be tomorrow’s outcomes.
Business value of Data & Technology (18:00): The earlier the organizations start collecting data and analyzing the data, the better off they’ll be. Jill’s books have focused on the business value of data & technology. The ebook that Jill is focusing on currently touches animal welfare.
Organizational development and culture (20:00): The ever-green topic for future would be Organizational development and organizational culture. Data and Analytics are great platforms but nowadays most senior management is grappling with having the right organizational design to adapt to technologies.
Neuro-diversity (22:00): Gender diversity, racial diversity, and sexual-orientation diversity all lead to diversity of ideas and discussion and that is neuro-diversity. And the diversity of ideas and discussion from different life experiences makes the professional experience also richer. And there are a lot of positive case studies.
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