Has your company broken your data bridge?

A Data Bridge, an image I often use to illustrate how to successfully translate a business problem into a data-driven decision.

If you are using nothing at all, we might consider the bridge to be broken.

The goal of our work in data is to make information accessible and understandable quickly. This allows us to explore, analyze, or make better decisions using business intelligence solutions.

The 3 steps :

Business problems need to be detected or supported by data. 

1. Data Engineering is the process of designing, building, and optimizing systems for collecting, storing, and processing data.
2. A Design Process is a structured methodology to solving problems and creating effective, user-centered solutions.
3. Data Visualization is about creating clear, meaningful, and user-friendly representations that enhance understanding and decision-making. 

The Data Bridge story

1. Every business teams wish to be data-driven to make better decisions, exploration to encourage action in the company.
2. Data leaders, CDOs, and managers focus their budgets and efforts here, often neglecting other areas.
3. Most of the time, there is no design process. Data teams rush to create dashboards and reports without proper requirements gathering, validation, or thoughtful design.
4. This leads to a focus on functionality like buttons, navigation, filters, and tables of numbers rather than a well-designed data visualization product centered on user experience.
5. As a result, users are left with unintuitive and confusing dashboards. This causes shadow IT, a return to old tool, frustration and failed adoptions.

If you want everyone to cross the bridge, the bridge needs to be balanced and strong from start to finish.

Focusing only on making the first part extremely robust will undoubtedly drain resources and budgets for the second and third parts. It's crucial to understand that these three parts need to be balanced and work together.

Unfortunately, most of the time, these three parts are handled by different leaders, teams and budget which leads to diverging budgets and competition among them.

I believe this is a critical mistake many companies make.

That's why I made a program that teaches Design principles (part 4 from the 2nd visual), and also explains why Designing before developing is fundamental (part 3 from the 2nd visual).

If you're interested about this training:

• For individual access: Join the program here
• For team access : Contact me here