The Psychological Side of Me

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Frederick: If you put people in a position where they're going to have that question potentially the preparation of that meeting wasn't all that good. "I would happily have given them that feedback earlier but they didn't so like that's that's where I'm heading to" He says vendors are incentivized to make their products or tools seem like they solve problems automatically which is never usually the case.

Do analysts make things more complicated than they need to be, or is the data representing a complex world, so that is just the nature of the beast? Or is it both? Stakeholders yearn for simple answers to simple questions, but the road to delivering meaningful results seems paved with potholes of statistical complexity, data nuances, and messy tooling. What is a business to do? Frederik Werner from DHL joined Michael and Tim for a discussion that definitively determined that, well, the topic is…complicated! For complete show notes, including links to items mentioned in this episode and a transcript of the show, visit the show page.