The flip side of this kind of employee empowerment is that it might not be the best use of employee time to have them writing their own dashboards and so forth. Let IT tend to that, while salespeople tend to selling. And so forth.
Absolutely: It's important for department heads and IT management to work together on determining who gets access to what and when--and make sure that info is kept current as people leave or their responsibiities change. It may sound Pollyanna-ish, but when all departments work as a team, employees across-the-board benefit.
I love how the tech world is starting to allow end-users to become power users. Now while this might sound like fire to some, it does help out everyone in the end including those who work in the IT department. So I do support allowing big data to be access by end users as long as it isn't sensitive data that we are talking about.
Yes, and equipping end-users with some of these tools really does free-up IT for tasks they'd prefer to work on, while also enabling business employees to be more self-sufficient. No one likes to keep running to IT, any more than IT enjoys being continually on the spot!
The advantages of data used well are never more eveident than in the US election results, but IT & The business are still at odds, I see that when 3rd party consultants are brought in more communication occurs but IT & the business need to have regular check points to make sure they are on the same page
Big-data is so closely associated with business processes that business managers need to be able to customize their dashboards personally. Running to IT for every little change just isn't a practical option.
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