Managing Analytics & Data Science During A Crisis

As I write this blog, we are deep into the ongoing COVID-19 crisis and lockdown. At IIA, we’ve been tracking the impacts that analytics and data science organizations have felt thus far. You can track our regular COVID-19 impact survey updates, executed jointly with Burtch Works, at this link.This whole mess has had me thinking about what type of analytics leadership is required to weather the storm. I’ll cover one angle in this post that relates to an often-missing layer within today’s analytics and data science organizations – a Chief Data Scientist who remains focused on the technical as opposed to management.Be Thankful We Now Have Analytics ExecutivesAt the time of the last major crisis in 2008, the presence of senior analytics leaders was spotty at best and the term “data science” effectively did not exist. Organizations in industries with a long history of analytics, such as finance and insurance, had at least VP level analytics leaders. However, the concept of a Chief Analytics Officer was barely on the radar and most had not yet even considered such a position.Today, most large organizations have a Chief Analytics Officer or equivalent who has, at minimum, access to the table, if not ...


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