Day in the Life of an Industry Analyst at Gartner’s (Virtual) IT Symposium Xpo 2020 – Day 3

Wednesday October 22 2020

6.08am Late getting up.  Tired. Dog. Breakfast.  News.  Family.  Late.

7.10am At desk.  Blog.  Top 20 most-read evaluation closing week all through D&A.  Mused – looks like my thoughts train is just a little bit flatter than earlier in the week.  A pattern I’ve seen at earlier conferences…

 

8.01am First 1-1….

10.05am Break.  Starbucks run.  Need my White Chocolate Mocha.  Snuck in a nice and warn sausage and egg muffin.

11.00.  Back to desk.  More 1-1s.

12.10.  Wanted to hit bike nevertheless too many emails demand consideration. My well-being should wait.  Poor me haha.  Did have time to toast some crumpets and cheese and tomato and inexperienced onions.  Yum!

1.30pm Back to 1-1s.  Break someplace nevertheless saved going until 5.30pm.

I’m outta proper right here.  Dinner.

 

Day 3 summary of 1-1s (31 full)

 

Industries:

• Apparel/Footwear 2
• Bio/Pharma 1
• Communications & High Tech; Consumer and Entertainment 2
• Energy 1
• Financial Services 6
• Grocery / Food and Beverage 4
• Healthcare 3
• Higher Education 3
• Household/Hard Goods 1
• IT Sector (tech, consulting and so forth.) 2
• Paper and Pulp 1
• Public Sector 4
• Sustainability 1

Industry Types:

• Manufacturing/Distribution 8
• Services 17
• Public Sector 4
• Retail and e-Commerce 2

Topics:

• (broader/full) Data and Analytics Strategy 14
• Data and Analytics Governance and/or MDM 10
• Organization, Leadership, Roles and so forth. 6
• Best Practices all through D&A/often 5
• Analytics Strategy (solely) 3
• Advanced Analytics/ML or AI 4
• Data Management 3
• Enterprise Information Management 2
• Data Monetization 1

Role/Title (31):

• Business enchancment supervisor 1
• Chief Data Officer/CDO 4
• CIO 3
• Chief Quality Officer 1
• Director Analytics 1
• Director Database Engineering 1
• Director Data Mgt and Advanced Analytics 1
• Data Governance 1
• Developer Manager 1
• Director 1
• Enterprise Architect 1
• EIM Manager 1
• Finance Reporting 1
• IT Director 2
• Senior IT Manager – Applications 1
• VP Analytics/VP Data 2
• VP BI and Applications 1
• VP/CTO 1
• VP Engineering 1
• VP IT 1
• VP or Manager, Business Applications 2
• VP Innovation 1
• Other 1

Most frequent “despatched” evaluation as observe as a lot as 1-1:

Digital Strategy Infused with Data and Analytics:

• How to Make Data and Analytics Central to Your Digital Transformation Initiative
• Top Strategic Technology Trends for 2021 “Organizations, pushed by the ever-increasing tempo of that change, are accelerating their digital enterprise strategies. As a finish outcome, they need to quickly make enterprise choices in help of enterprise moments, educated by associated info. They ought to then adapt their capabilities to behave on these choices in near precise time.”
• Improve Decision Making Using Decision Intelligence Models

D&A Leadership/Chief Data Officer:

• Leadership Vision for 2021: Data and Analytics
• How CDOs Can Use Data Storytelling to Engage and Influence Stakeholders
• Toolkit: Chief Data Officer Job Description

Overall Data and Analytics Strategy:

• Recorded Webinar: Emerging Practices for a Data-driven Strategy
• Toolkit: Creating a Modern Data and Analytics Strategy and Operating Model
• Tie Your Data and Analytics Initiatives to Stakeholders and Their Business Goals
• How to Craft a Modern, Actionable Data and Analytics Strategy That Delivers Business Outcomes

 Modern Data and Analytics Governance:

• Design an Effective Information Governance Strategy
  • And associated recorded webinar Overview of the outcome-based technique to D&A Governance
• Use Gartner’s Value Pyramid to Connect Data and Analytics to Business Value
  • And associated recorded webinar Drill-down on the “hyperlink info to closing outcome” idea we advocate to prioritize the greatest technique to be part of the teams spherical shared outcomes
• (*3*)Data and Analytics Governance Requires a Comprehensive Range of Policy Types
  • Discusses the need to connect the disparate silos of info privateness, info security, and data prime quality and so forth.
• How Augmented Data Management Capabilities Are Impacting MDM and Data Governance
• (*3*)Toolkit: Data and Analytics Governance Role Descriptions
• Toolkit: Data and Analytics Governance Organizational Structures

Organizing the Work of Data and Analytics:

• Where to Organize the Work of Data and Analytics
• What Are the Must-Have Roles for Data and Analytics?

Other notes we acknowledged:

• Build a Data Quality Operating Model to Drive Data Quality Assurance
• (*3*)The Gartner Digital Business Value Model: A Framework for Measuring Business Performance

 

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