๐ Definitely not by becoming a dashboard factory or by offloading everything and call it self-service.
Hereโs my current take – and I know it has some buzzwords into it but please try to give it some thoughts:
๐ฆ Setup the data team as an internal startup. What does that mean? Well, we apply typical startup measures to it.
#1 Find product/market fit and develop a โbusiness modelโ
Read the lean startup and go out to find your product/market fit and define your internal business model.
This means:
๐ง๐ปโ๐ a lot of customer interviews. Invest the time and speak about their problems that could potentially resolved with data
๐ฅ Shadow them – sit in the team for 1-2 weeks and see what their challenges are
๐ฐ Identify your initial niche and which services/products would help most to solve the problems in this niche
๐ช Build a Minimal valuable data product and test it with your niche group
๐ก Validate using Superhumanโs Product/Market fit model
๐ Expand from there – Build, Measure, Learn
Tomorrow I will write about pitching and raising next rounds as a data team.