School of Building Data and Business Relationships w/ Kristin Schooley

In this episode of Catalog & Cocktails, Kristin Schooley from Learning Care Group sits down with Juan Sequeda and Tim Gasper to discuss the importance of teamwork and building relationships when it comes to scaling an analytics team within a large organization. The conversation covers a lot of ground, including the need to understand what reporting is needed and what story is being told, how to ensure scalability and compliance, as well as the importance of measuring usage and interpreting why certain data may not be utilized.

Key Takeaways:

• [00:00 - 01:10] Introduction & Cheers
• [01:15 - 03:11] What was your favorite class in school and why?
• [03:16 - 06:34] A data team of five
• [06:36 - 11:29] Partnering with business units and thinking about what is being learned
• [11:43 - 14:07] Data as a product and lifecycle management
• [14:22 - 15:13] Data literacy isn't necessarily the phrase we should be using
• [15:15 - 18:13] Business analytics and understanding how to present data
• [18:16 - 22:51] How organizations organize their data teams with checks and balances
• [22:52 - 26:18] Business literacy, centralized teams, and scaling beyond a bottleneck
• [26:20 - 30:31] Incentivizing for having documentation up to date
• [30:40 - 34:57] Lightning round
• [35:00 - 39:46] Tim & Juan's Takeaways
• [39:46 - 43:06] Three questions