I’m going to write about something today that’s been on my mind for a long time now.
Data.
It’s so bad that I’m having dashboard dreams. I’m not kidding. If you’ve ever worked with datasets/tables for an extended period of time then you have probably had the “data dream”.
Anyway, I’m addicted to data and the impact that it has on business decisions. I’m Head of Finance at Design Pickle, but my daily efforts now have transitioned into helping craft the data strategy at our company and I LOVE IT. I’m in love with diving in and organizing/visualizing.
In my profession, it used to be “Cash is King”, which let’s be honest still holds some merit. BUT, in today’s working environment “Data is King”. Data influences product strategy, marketing and go-to-market, operations, customer success, and finance…at the same time.
My favorite quote around this is “It doesn’t matter what problem you are trying to solve and whom you are trying to solve it for, the answer is somewhere in the data.”
Don’t ask me who said this…maybe it was in my dream 🙂