Kategorie: Business

Posted in Business, Data as an asset, Data strategy, Finance

Ensuring the Data Team’s Financial Viability, Beyond Cash Burn – An Interview with Timur Bokari

In his current role, Timur Bokari supports the growth of a FinTech in the Recurring Revenue Financing space by developing new customer segments and evolving strategy based on existing data. Timur talks to D3M Labs about the financial viability of data teams. He explains the financial and accounting mechanisms that are relevant to Data Leaders. Data team viability lies in the link between data availability and decision-making capability. Financial sustainability and job stability in data requires clearer correlations between data and revenue growth and cost reduction.

Posted in Business, Data as an asset, Data strategy, Deutsch, Finance

Die finanzielle Überlebensfähigkeit des Data Teams gewährleisten, über den Cash-Burn hinaus – Ein Interview mit Timur Bokari

In seiner aktuellen Position unterstützt Timur Bokari das Wachstum eines FinTechs im Bereich Recurring Revenue Financing durch die Erschließung neuer Kundensegmente und die Weiterentwicklung der Strategie auf Basis vorhandener Daten. Timur spricht mit D3M Labs über die finanzielle Nachhaltigkeit von Datenteams. Er erklärt die Finanz- und Buchhaltungsmechanismen, die für Data Leaders relevant sind. Die Überlebensfähigkeit von Datenteams liegt in der Verbindung zwischen Datenverfügbarkeit und Entscheidungsfähigkeit. Die finanzielle Nachhaltigkeit und Arbeitsplatzstabilität im Datenbereich erfordert klarere Korrelationen zwischen Daten und Umsatzwachstum und Kostensenkung.

Posted in Business, Data Leadership, Deutsch, Vendor management

Die nachhaltige Beschaffung von Datentools ist dringend erforderlich,Teil 1: Coole Tools und Data Teams auf dem Boulevard der zerbrochenen Träume

Coole Tools sind oft die heiße Hookup des Data Leaders (oder Stakeholders), um am nächsten Morgen mit den Klamotten von gestern in einer kalten Gasse zu landen. Coole Tools werden gekauft, installiert, ausprobiert und für den nächsten vielversprechenden Anbieter aufgegeben. Und das bedroht ernsthaft die finanzielle und operative Überlebensfähigkeit des Data Teams. Warum sind Data Tools so verführerisch? 

Wie können wir verhindern, dass die Beschaffung zu einem Boulevard der geplatzten Träume und nicht realisierten Projekte wird?

Posted in Business, Data Leadership, Vendor management

Sustainable data tool purchasing, Part 1: Cool tools on the Boulevard of Broken Dreams

Cool tools are often the Data Leader’s (or stakeholder’s) hot tech hookup, ending up in a cold alley with yesterday’s clothes the morning after. Cool tools get purchased, installed, tried out and abandoned for the next promising vendor. And it’s seriously threatening data teams‘ financial and operational viability. 
Why are data tools so seductive? 

How can we prevent procurement from ending up in a boulevard of broken dreams and unrealized projects?

Posted in Analytics, Business, Data as an asset

How can analytics become a revenue generating function?

The first Decision Lab Round Table covered the topic of how to make Analytics a revenue-generating function. We had a cross functional discussion involving data professionals, as well as adjacent professions who are working in Europe and the USA. This blog covers the discussion points, as well as D3M Labs commentary about how analytics should be a business function.

Posted in Analytics, Business, Data as an asset, Deutsch

Wie kann Analytik zu einer Umsatz generierenden Abteilung werden?

Der erste Decision Lab Round Table befasste sich mit dem Thema, wie man die Analytik zu einer Umsatz generierenden Abteilung machen kann. Wir hatten eine funktionsübergreifende Diskussion unter Beteiligung von Datenexperten und benachbarten Berufsgruppen, die in Europa und den USA arbeiten. Dieser Blog enthält die Diskussionspunkte sowie einen Kommentar von D3M Labs dazu, wie Analytik eine Geschäftsfunktion sein sollte.

Posted in Analytics, Business, Change management, Data careers, Data education, Data Leadership

Data is about business- an interview with Tristan J Burns

The Future of the Analyst, Part 3: Data is about business, strategy and revenue generation. Tristan J Burns shares his transition from banking to being a data leader. Tristan details how he sees the role of a data leader encompassing EQ (emotional intelligence) and enabling the data team to drive strategy and data-driven decision making. The interview also includes how data leaders should be measured and which C-Suite roles they should fill.

Posted in Analytics, Business, Data careers, Data Leadership, Insights

Elevating the analyst – an interview with João Sousa

The Future of the Analyst, Part 1: The gap between analytics and impact can be filled with business acumen and empowerment. João Sousa talks about his journey as an analytics practitioner to McKinsey and into diagnostic analytics at a vendor. Knowing the why, understanding the root cause, is the key to driving more business value with data. The root cause and how to change something is the real way to create business impact.

Posted in Business, Data Leadership, Data strategy, Data-driven marketing, Immigration, Insights, KPIs, Product analytics, Strategy

Fall in love with the problem, not the data – an interview with Mor Eini

Mor Eini’s career started in the Israeli Defense Force in the Office of the Prime Minister and took her to the VC ecosystem in Berlin. Mor Eini from APX, which is an early stage investor, explains how she evaluates a startup’s use of data. Mor also talks about the Israeli and Berlin ecosystems. She also shares her insights as a B2B investor on how data is a tool to create, foster, accelerate innovation, but data is not the innovation.

Posted in AI Strategy, Business, Data as an asset, Data product management, Data strategy, Strategy

Building defensibility with Data Moats  – an interview with Raúl Berganza Gómez

Competitive advantages enable your business to be successful. Defensibility is what you need to keep that competitive advantage. Data Moats leverage data to create parts of your business that are hard for competitors to replicate. In an open source, fast-moving digital world, building a deep moat gives your business the margin and time to maintain competitiveness.