
Building Teams for Flexible, Fast and Agile Delivery of Analytics
In today’s fast-paced, digitalized and highly competitive business environment, the effectiveness of decision making often depends on agility of analytics and business intelligence. This has generated an urgent need for businesses to build teams that can deliver agile analytics for faster, flexible and effective decision making.
Experts strongly believe that it is high time that hierarchical practices are abandoned and efforts are made to build teams that are configured to adopt to agile practices. Few basic attributes to be considered when planning to configure such a team include:
· The team must function in a centralized manner, to ensure coordinated and collaborated efforts among all members.
· Members of the team should be flexible enough to adopt to dynamic roles, in order to achieve common organizational goals and desired project outcomes.
· Each member should possess agile problem solving and decision making capability.
· There should be seamless and continuous flow of communication to ensure that loopholes and bottlenecks are addressed well within time for timely decision making.
· Effective deployment of resources depending upon level and type of demand.
The success of an agile analytics team not just depends upon the individual efforts of its members, but mostly on the leader entrusted with the critical responsibility to create a team that operates effectively and brings value addition for the business.
In short, it is not enough to develop analytic agility at the root level of any business but instead it needs to be embedded across all its structures for effective, fast and productive decision making and implementation.
