Best Practices For Creating a Successful Data Strategy for Your Business

Courtlin Holt-Nguyen
7 min readApr 22, 2023
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Creating a Successful Data Strategy (Part 2)

Develop a Data Strategy

In Part 1 of this series, we looked at the reasons to build a data strategy in the first place. We also outlined the key data infrastructure considerations and the overall role that data analytics can play in your organization. In this article, we’ll take a deeper look at how to use analytics to add value to your decision-making process.

Understanding Your Customer: Create A Data-Driven Customer Persona

To craft an effective data strategy, it is essential for startups to understand their customers. One way of doing this is by leveraging data to create customer personas. A customer persona is a characterization of a typical or ideal customer that represents the needs, behaviors, and preferences of a particular target audience. Startups can use these personas as a guide when designing products, services, and marketing campaigns tailored to their customers’ unique characteristics. To construct accurate and insightful customer personas, startups should analyze various types of data such as demographic information, online behavior patterns, social media interactions and purchase histories. They…

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Courtlin Holt-Nguyen

Former Head of Enterprise Analytics. I share practical data science tutorials with working code. Data scientist | data strategist | consultant.