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Which cloud provider do you use for your Enterprise Data Warehousing needs?

Data & Analytics Business Intelligence Storage

Google Cloud Platform - BigQuery

Amazon Web Services - Redshift

Microsoft - Azure

Snowflake

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In this gig economy we live in, which is growing rapidly, how many of you have used talent agencies, for specialized professionals on an as needed basis, to ramp up quickly and get a project done?

Talent Management & Performance Financial Management

Yes, we use external talent agencies often

Yes, we use external talent agencies rarely

No, we only leverage internal staff

Not sure, I see people come and go not sure if they are internal staff or external talent

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What feels like the most difficult part of starting a company?

Culture & Values

Raising funds

A good idea

A good team

High probability it fails

Other (please comment)

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Are you using OKRs (Objectives and Key Results)?

People & Leadership Process Management Management Tools

Not using OKRs

Using OKRs within some business units

Using OKRs enterprise wide

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In your opinion, what is the most productive work style of your team?

People & Leadership Team & Organizational Design Talent Management & Performance+1 more

Flexible hours (no more than 8hrs/day)

Fixed schedule (8am-5pm/9am-6pm)

Partially in the office and partially remotely

Unconditional (may work more or less than 8 hours)

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How streamlined does your organization find the H1-B process?

Talent Management & Performance Financial Management Jobs

It's an efficient system to ensure good talent at the company.

Good, but much to improve.

Very inefficient. Lots of bureaucratic problems.

Other, please specify.

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The level of technology is fast paced compared to its use.

Yes

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What's the most important friction in deploying Robotic Process Automation (RPA) in your company?

People & Leadership Applications & Platforms Engineering+14 more

Cost of RPA products

Lack of developers who can code RPA applications

Amount of customization needed to automate business processes

Lack of RPA code maintenance resources

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How did Work-From-Home impact you and your team’s productivity?

People & Leadership

More productive

Less productivie

Just the same

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Do developers think Microsoft is "cooler" today vs. approx. 2 years ago (GitHub acquisition)?

People & Leadership Engineering Data & Analytics+11 more

Yes

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How can we find someone to work alongside of our Data Office to revamp our Data Governance program? We've made tremendous progress, but we aren't there yet! Anyone work with a good consulting firm? Any advice appreciated!

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Chris ThompsonVP in Healthcare and Biotech3 months ago

Thanks for reaching out! It's great to hear that you've made significant progress with your data governance program. At Amazech solutions, we specialize in helping organization like yours achieve their data governance goals. ...read more

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Our data governance program selects Stewards and Council Members based on their department / area of the business. We've been committed to modern / adaptive governance for about 3 years. We're maturing -- but not where we want to be. We need to re-organize by domain, by area of expertise. Our topics are increasingly complex. Also, they are usually only pertinent to maybe half the attendees in our Steward and Council meetings? How are you handling this? Does everyone have the chance to vote on issues that arise? Or do you manage that by domain expertise? Quite frankly not everyone is trusted to vote appropriately due to a lack of exposure to the topic at hand. Help! We are approaching our annual "rotation" of steward and council members, and we want to get this right!

Chris ThompsonVP in Healthcare and Biotech2 months ago

We have a hierarchical structure. We have a data governance council that is the decision making body. That consists of key executive representatives from across the organization. Below that we have a data stewards group. ...read more

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I see a shift in the talent landscape where the value of data, analytics, and tech expertise is increasingly measured/compensated by capability rather than tenure. What is considered as equitable is a struggle between business leadership and human resources. Is there an opportunity to lead the market by adapting our approach and become a destination for top talent, drive innovation and secure a competitive edge? How do we respond?

Chris ThompsonVP in Healthcare and Biotech4 months ago

Responding to the Talent Landscape Shift

Market Research:

Conduct thorough market research to understand the evolving expectations of top talent in the data, analytics, and tech fields.
Benchmark against ...read more

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Who has used MetricInsights.com? We already have a data catalog, but the BI Portal concept looks great. For anyone who does use this, do you have a separate data catalog? Does it help make dashboards more accessible? What problems are you solving with this technology? Level of effort for installation and setup?

Chris ThompsonVP in Healthcare and Biotecha month ago

We dont use metric insights but we have developed a similar portal within our organization, called 'ERP Portal - Enterprise Reporting Portal' which has significantly streamlined our data management processes. Here are a ...read more

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For those of you who work in an organization with a named CDAO (or someone acting in a CDAO role), does the CDAO team include data engineers? As opposed to data engineers being in IT only? How is that working for you? Can the CDAO function succeed without engineering talent to execute their priorities?

Chris ThompsonVP in Healthcare and Biotech6 months ago

I currently work in CDAO team. My team manages data and ML infrastructure and data engineering. In my prior roles, I led data engineering teams within IT. In my opinion, CDAO can succeed without having engineers on the team ...read more

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We are going through an RFP for a data catalog. At the moment, for the size and maturity of our company, a vendor named Data Galaxy is the front runner. Has anyone implemented Data Galaxy and if so, how has the product performed for your company?

Chris ThompsonVP in Healthcare and Biotech4 months ago

we use Alation and have been very pleased with the product, the roadmap, and in particular the support and help with the change enablement and adoption, etc.

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Our data governance program selects Stewards and Council Members based on their department / area of the business. We've been committed to modern / adaptive governance for about 3 years. We're maturing -- but not where we want to be. We need to re-organize by domain, by area of expertise. Our topics are increasingly complex. Also, they are usually only pertinent to maybe half the attendees in our Steward and Council meetings? How are you handling this? Does everyone have the chance to vote on issues that arise? Or do you manage that by domain expertise? Quite frankly not everyone is trusted to vote appropriately due to a lack of exposure to the topic at hand. Help! We are approaching our annual "rotation" of steward and council members, and we want to get this right!

Chris ThompsonVP in Healthcare and Biotech2 months ago

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How are you addressing "burnout" with your employees?

Chris ThompsonVP in Healthcare and Biotech4 months ago

As a corporation, we offer employees half days on every other Friday, and all Friday's are purposed for administrative purposes, with no meetings unless critical. As a security team, we've worked to build staff, assign responsibilities ...read more

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Interested in hearing feedback from those that deployed Copilot M365.

Chris ThompsonVP in Healthcare and Biotech4 months ago

very handy for the basic productivity lift but not as valuable when researching items as OpenAi. We are constrained in what CoPilot can search.
Mostly using it to help with communication tasks.

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How often do you encounter leaders who are more inclined to make decisions based on instinct rather than data? What's your go-to approach for getting these leaders more comfortable with shifting to data-driven decision making?

Chris ThompsonVP in Healthcare and Biotech4 months ago

I've found that a lot of it is about building relationships. In my organization, we're about helping people when they're in hard spaces. We're driven by a bigger mission and we build a lot of relationships along the way. ...read more

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What aspect of a mature data and analytics culture are you most passionate about? This is your chance to get on the soap box and preach!

Chris ThompsonVP in Healthcare and Biotech4 months ago

I'm most passionate about the transformative power of data analytics to drive innovation and create value for both organizations and stakeholders. It's not just about us, it's about our customers too. It's crucial to mature ...read more

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What are signs that your D&A initiatives are gaining traction within your organization as a whole? What key indicators of maturity do you look for in your own team and across the organization?

Chris ThompsonVP in Healthcare and Biotech4 months ago

A key indicator of maturity in Data & Analytics initiatives is reflected in the questions that people ask and how they use the data to make decisions. If they're not using the data to inform their decisions or to build automated ...read more

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Have you formally (or informally) implemented the capability of Data Steward? What are some practical learnings that you can share?

Chris ThompsonVP in Healthcare and Biotech5 months ago

Yes! we have data stewards as part of our data governance framework. This fall into the "other duties as assigned" part of the job description. That being said, our stewards take their roles seriously.

We have ...read more

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