Increasing Dashboard Adoption & Communicating with Stakeholders
MindSpeaking Podcast Episode 12 - Nicholas Kelly, Principal consultant and trainer @ G&K Consulting
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Timestamps:
00:00:00 - Introduction
00:02:50 - Tips for meeting new people for the first time
00:05:37 - Internship in Honolulu
00:08:19 - Understanding your audience
00:10:30 - Nick's Career Journey
00:15:00 - Combining business and a relationship
00:16:40 - The Adoption Struggle and how we can prevent it
00:25:01 - Definition of Value Mindset and the Production Mindset
00:28:44 - Tips for talking to stakeholders
00:30:22 - What do you see as the role of a data leader/manager vs. an individual contributor?
00:35:33 – IT and business in one room. Funny story 00:40:08 What's your definition of data storytelling?
00:48:15 – Data viz tip: The Data-to-ink ratio
00:54:00 - About the Dashboard Wireframe kit
00:57:59 - Fun/Quick Questions
00:58:47 - Practical tips for communicating as a Data Analyst
01:00:40 - Key takeaway of the episode
01:02:53 - How do you keep balance? What is your focus at the moment?
01:05:03 - Where can people connect with Nicholas Kelly
01:07:09 - Conclusion
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Introducing Nicholas Kelly
Gilbert Eijkelenboom:
Nicholas Kelly is the author of the book delivering data analytics, and the hands-on leader in BI and analytics with almost 20 years of international experience and we have a lot of stories about that international experience as well that we're going to hear in this episode. He has done a lot of coding by himself, but also has managed large data teams of 25 data scientists, and now he has his own business with a focus on analytics, adoption, and user experience. He's running this business together with his wife, which I admire because I cannot imagine doing a business or running a business together with my girlfriends. But joking aside, what you can find in this episode is tips. For the data analytics, communication, about visualization and creating dashboards. And especially we're going to zoom in on how to increase adoption of dashboards and how to have conversations with stakeholders and end users so that you actually build something that they will be interested in and use. So he's another person, bring the da