Kategorie: Data Leadership

Posted in Cybersecurity, Data governance, Data Leadership, Deutsch, Digital sovereignty, Zero trust

Die Sicht eines Data Leaders auf Cybersicherheit

Dieser Blog enthält einige meiner wichtigsten Eindrücke von der kürzlich stattgefundenen niederländisch-bayerischen Konferenz ‚Zusammenarbeit in der Cybersicherheit: Die wichtigsten Aufgaben für die Unternehmensführung‘ in München, organisiert von InnovationQuarter. Ich hatte das Privileg, von der Recruiting-Firma GCS zu der Veranstaltung eingeladen zu werden. Die Welt wird immer digitaler und gefährlicher, was den Gedankenaustausch über Cybersicherheit zwischen Freunden und Geschäftspartnern unerlässlich macht. Ich verbrachte einen Tag damit, brillanten Köpfen aus den Niederlanden, Bayern und darüber hinaus zuzuhören, die darüber sprachen, wie man Cybersicherheit zu einem C-Suite-Thema machen kann.

Posted in Cybersecurity, Data governance, Data Leadership, Digital sovereignty, Zero trust

A Data Leader’s Perspective on Cybersecurity

This blog entails a few of my high-level takeaways from the recent Dutch-Bavarian „Collaboration in Cybersecurity: The most important tasks for business leaders“ conference in Munich, Organized by InnovationQuarter. I was privileged to get invited by the recruiting firm GCS to the event. The world gets increasingly digital and dangerous, making the exchange of ideas about cybersecurity between friends and trading partners essential. I spent a day listening to brilliant minds from the Netherlands, Bavaria and beyond talk about what how to make Cybersecurity a C-Suite issue.

Posted in Analytics, Data Leadership, Machine learning

Operational Analytics, a New Paradigm for Delivering Data-Driven Impact

From higher ROI to easier use, operational analytics answers many contemporary challenges facing data teams. I (Elizabeth Press), spoke with Dani Solà  Senior Vice President of Data and Analytics at Clark about Operational Analytics. Success, however, necessitates a well-governed data platform and solid security concepts. When your stakeholders come back with questions, it’s a sign of engagement and thus relevance of the system you built.

Posted in Data Leadership

Experiences of Toxic Leadership in Data

Kasia Musur from VENT conducted research about experiences of toxic leadership amongst data professionals in cooperation with Elizabeth Press from D3M Labs. The blog is a high level summary of a couple of insights with a link to the full interview on the D3M Labs YouTube channel.

Posted in Data Leadership, Deutsch, Vendor management

Die nachhaltige Beschaffung von Datentools ist dringend erforderlich,Teil 2: Wie verhindert man, dass der planlose Kauf von coolen Tools das Engineering-Team aus der Bahn wirft?

Ingenieure und Customer Success Teams sind die unbesungenen Helden des IT-Betriebs.
Hast du dich schon einmal gefragt, was sie über deine Kaufgewohnheiten denken? Vor allem in virtuellen Organisationen können Ingenieure und Kundenerfolgsteams bei Anbietern in ihrer Programmierhöhle leben, hart arbeiten und für andere unsichtbar sein. Wenn man impulsive coole Tools kauft, ohne die Ingenieure mit einzubeziehen, kann das nicht nur diese schwer zu rekrutierenden Fachleute in den Wahnsinn treiben und die Beziehungen zu den Anbietern belasten, sondern auch die Entwicklung Ihrer Plattform und wichtige Projekte wie die Datenmigration zum Scheitern bringen. Das könnte Ihre Ingenieure so frustrieren, dass sie kündigen.

Posted in Data Leadership, Vendor management

Sustainable data tool purchasing, Part 2: How to prevent haphazard cool tool purchasing from de-railing your engineering team

Engineers and customer success teams are unsung heroes of IT Operations.
Have you wondered what your they think of your purchasing habits? Especially in virtual organizations, engineers and customer success counterparts at vendors can live in their coding-cave, working hard, invisible to others. Impulsive cool tool purchasing without including engineers might not only be driving those difficult to recruit professionals crazy and burn vendor relationships, it could derail your platform development and important projects such as data migration. It might frustrate your engineers enough to quit.

Posted in Business, Data Leadership, Deutsch, Vendor management

Die nachhaltige Beschaffung von Datentools ist dringend erforderlich,Teil 1: Coole Tools und Data Teams auf dem Boulevard der zerbrochenen Träume

Coole Tools sind oft die heiße Hookup des Data Leaders (oder Stakeholders), um am nächsten Morgen mit den Klamotten von gestern in einer kalten Gasse zu landen. Coole Tools werden gekauft, installiert, ausprobiert und für den nächsten vielversprechenden Anbieter aufgegeben. Und das bedroht ernsthaft die finanzielle und operative Überlebensfähigkeit des Data Teams. Warum sind Data Tools so verführerisch? 

Wie können wir verhindern, dass die Beschaffung zu einem Boulevard der geplatzten Träume und nicht realisierten Projekte wird?

Posted in Business, Data Leadership, Vendor management

Sustainable data tool purchasing, Part 1: Cool tools on the Boulevard of Broken Dreams

Cool tools are often the Data Leader’s (or stakeholder’s) hot tech hookup, ending up in a cold alley with yesterday’s clothes the morning after. Cool tools get purchased, installed, tried out and abandoned for the next promising vendor. And it’s seriously threatening data teams‘ financial and operational viability. 
Why are data tools so seductive? 

How can we prevent procurement from ending up in a boulevard of broken dreams and unrealized projects?

Posted in Data Leadership, Inclusion, Society

Why is it important to talk about toxic leadership?

Kasia Musur is a Berlin-based founder of an early-stage startup dealing with toxic leadership through preventive, protective and accountability measures.

„A job is a job. A boss is a boss “. For centuries people complain about their work-lives and yet the world goes round. Why is it suddenly such a big deal how we feel about our jobs, colleagues, and bosses?

Posted in AI use case, Analytics, Current events, Data careers, Data Leadership, Data strategy, Data-driven marketing

Contextualizing our world with data, a D3M Labs Series

Contextualizing our world with data. A four part D3M Labs series about how communications professionals use data. Writing and other forms of communications might be art, however, technology is the means by which thoughts, news, images, etc. are conveyed, stored, measured and iterated. The impact can range from branding and connecting with customers and prospects, to reporting about world events.