Loraine Lindsey 

How to Train Someone to Translate Business Problems into Analytics Questions

By: Louise Herring, Helen Mayhew, Akanksha Midha, Ankur Puri
Full article @ Harvard Business Review 
Published on February 11, 2019 

Executive Summary

Analytics translators perform some of the most essential functions for integrating analytics capabilities in a company. They define business problems that analytics can help solve, guide technical teams in the creation of analytics-driven solutions to these problems, and embed solutions into business operations. It’s specialized work, calling for strong business acumen, some technical knowledge, and project management and delivery chops. While translators can acquire some of the requisite knowledge for the job through coursework, they make the most impact once they have developed practical skills through on-the-job experience. Translator training is one of the most important analytics investments a company can make because companies seldom capture the full value of analytics without capable translators. The key to training a translation workforce is a multi-tiered progression, in which employees study concepts in a classroom before mastering new skills through apprenticeships. Translators connect the theory and the practice of analytics; their training courses must do the same.


 

 

Verse of the day John 15:2

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Thought of the day...

It's January 2019, out with the old. Bye! Won't see you later. Don't look me up, call or circle back around in a few days, months or years. God is doing a new thing. I feel a growth coming on. The process may not feel good while I am going through, but when it's over I am going to be greater than I was before.

Be confident. Romans 8:28 God is working things out for your good.

Love Ya.

Loraine

 
Dream it. Draft it. Tweak it. and Realize it.
Entrepreneurship (noun) en· tre· pre· neur·ship
Entrepreneurship is the process of designing, launching and running a new business, which is often initially a small business.
  (per Wikipedia)
The people who create these businesses are called entrepreneurs.  
Entrepreneur (noun) en· tre· pre· neur
An entrepreneur is one who organizes, manages, and assumes the risks of a business or enterprise 
(as described in the most basic terms by Webster) 

 
- that's me, Loraine Lindsey, one of those entrepreneur people.
I am often described as:
Adaptable | Ambitious | Astute
Calm | Committed | Competitive | Crazy | Creative
Determined | Dreamer | Driven | Dynamic 
Fearless | Hyper Focused | Innovator | Inpatient | Inventor
Malleable | Naive | Optimist
Passionate | Perceptive | Persistent | Positive | Proactive
Resilient | Risk taker | Self-disciplined | Self-motivated | Strong-willed
Stubborn | Tenacious | Thick Skinned | Unashamed | Visualizer
 

The truth is I am all of the above with probably a few additional choice words depending on who you ask.  
My mottos is: 
Dream it. Draft it. Tweak it. and Realize it.
 
A Crazy Dream Becomes Reality When You Just Do It. - Nike