2. Ed Thewlis
CTO
Doesn’t do much work anymore. Can be found
at the coffee bar or laid on the sofa.
Tony Jozefek
Head of Analytics
Hates dogs, balloons and people. Loves Data
and Statistics
6. Who are my
customers?
How should I
talk to my
customers?
What does
revenue look
like in 12
months?
Will my
customers
repay their
loans?
Which
customers
might want to
buy my new
product?
7. Who are my
customers?
How should I
talk to my
customers?
What does
revenue look
like in 12
months?
Will my
customers
repay their
loans?
Which
customers
might want to
buy my new
product?
Clustering
(describe) or
Decision Trees
(value)
Logistic
Regression
(Channel
preference/
propensity)
Time Series
Forecasting
Logistic
Regression,
Survival/Hazard
Model
Logistic
Regression,
Matchbox
recommender
23. Time to Insight
How efficiently can you
generate the insight to a
key decision point
Time to Action
How efficiently can the
business act on your
insight
Time to Value
Over what horizon are
you able to measure
your impact
30. Collaborate!
Analytics -> Technology
• Demonstrate your adoption of their best practices
• Show them what analytics can do for them
• Demonstrate your firm plan for automation (they’ll love
it!)
Analytics -> Operations
• Learn their jobs
• Sit with them daily
• Understand their problems, and make sure they make it
onto your backlog
• Celebrate your successes with them!
32. What should I do
tomorrow?
Collaborate
Start collaborating effectively
•Learn the right language to allow you to influence strategic thinking
•Ensure you are at the forefront of ‘What if’ questions
Measure
Measure yourselves
•Do you what you do best – but to yourselves
•Let the business case for growth write itself
•Celebrate your successes publicly
Automate
Automate all of the things
•Free yourself of drudgery
•Build a more efficient team
•Steal the best of the engineering teams
Understand
Know the levers of your value-chain
•Where can you influence decisions?
•What is the size of the opportunity?
•What is the type of problem?
•How will you measure your influence?
Ed
So - a warm welcome to our 2nd LDF event!
Thanks to our friends at RSM for providing such a lovely space for us.
We're here to talk about the life of an analyst - and how to make it thb
Quick intro – 1 minute
Tony: As Head of Analytics, my role is to help businesses understand their problems and how they can use their data to solve them...in a scalable, efficient manner...doing all of the things Ed just mentioned
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Back in the good old days...
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Ed -> Tony
Internal automation - Can those decisions conceivably be made by a machine if it magically ingested all the data my people have?
Handling change – Can my business decisions automatically learn from changes in environments and populations, and adapt accordingly?
Optimisation of time - Where do people in my company today apply knowledge to make decisions that could be automated, so their skills could be better leveraged elsewhere?
Ed
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Tony
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Time to Insight – Availability & Automation
Time to Action – Decision-making & engineering/implemetation
Time to Value – Value-chain understood & new reporting available to measure the changes
Tony
Measuring:
Backlog
Capacity
Time to Deliver
Time to Insight
Time to Action
Value of Action
Success rate of Experiments
If you have exhausted the options, time to move on
Tony -
FINISH ON POINT ABOUT FAILURE
Ed
How many experiments have I performed?
What was the Time to Insight?
What was the Time to Action?
What was the Value of Action?
What was the Success rate of Experiments?
Measuring:
Backlog
Capacity
Time to Deliver
Time to Insight
Time to Action
Value of Action
Success rate of Experiments
If you have exhausted the options, time to move on
Tony
Tony
How can these teams work & learn together…
…Learn the language
Ed
You can do all the things….it doesn’t mean you should
You can hand it over to be re-engineered…but you lose context and introduce risk
You need to understand the problems the business has
Ed
Tony -> Ed
Evaluate where you currently spend most of your time & effort
Do you have a set of tasks that stop you solving other problems?
If so, work with your Software/IT teams to automate the everyday tasks...learn from DevOps principles
Spend your new found time discovering new ways to add value to your organisation.
Rinse & Repeat.