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Compared to other organizational functions, this exciting field has come about abruptly and without a blueprint for how to build or lead these new teams. Often playbooks from other functions have been used, with little success. The lessons that experienced analytics professionals have learned have been hard won. What further complicates the successful deployment of these teams is that they are so sensitive to the state of the organization, its immediate goals, and the technical maturity of its industry. While finance and human resources are largely the same between industries and individual companies, the number of factors impacting analytics are staggering.

Using a generalized, systematic, and sequential approach, adapted to the needs of the individual organization, is the best method to standing up a new team or restructuring an existing team. Once a base template has been established, careful reflection on organizational readiness and analytical maturity combined with regulatory requirements and immediate needs can help with developing a short-term roadmap in collaboration with executive sponsors. Though there is no approach that will work in every situation, these best practices can hopefully help you see a little further over the horizon.

For the current analytics leader, I hope that some parts of this book will challenge your views, other parts will confirm your experience, and the book as a whole will ultimately help you to build out a successful and engaged team.