The BYOD was the best part

Last week I sat around a conference table with an accounting and finance team for four days.

Here’s what I heard (and saw):

“No way”

“Oh, this is awesome”

“Can we do this again in a few months?”

*draw drop*

“Why didn’t we know about this before?”

And…my favorite (from day 3)

“I had a dream about this last night”.

Through a four-day training class, I took a group of users from downloading Power BI for the first time on Monday to building scalable reports on their own data by the end of the week.

Of course, there were some slides and hands-on training labs, but the best part was the last day - What I call Bring Your Own Data day. On Monday, everything started theoretical. On Thursday, they were automating and dramatically enhancing manual reporting they had always handled in Excel.

It will:

Delight end users.

Save them hours a week.

Unlock numerous new possibilities.

Begin a new data culture at their organization.

Taking customers on this journey is one of my favorite things to do because the light bulb moments and the impact to their work is so instant.

Hit reply with BYOD and I’d love to tell you how your team can have the same transformation.

Sawyer

from ​The Data Shop​

p.s. Open Office Hour next Monday the 22nd from 2-3pm ET. Drop in and say "Hi". Chat about data or whatever else is on your mind. I'll send a link on the day of.