The side effects
If you start connecting your work to business outcomes, prepare for potential side-effects.
Like the end of the pharma ad for the newest life changing pill, here’s your disclaimer about what you might encounter.
As you continue this journey of connecting your work to business outcomes you might experience
renewed purpose
clarify of priorities
increased connection with business teams,
improved support and sponsorship from leadership.
But also as your data team helps achieve business outcomes, leadership will begin to view your data team differently.
The accountability shifts.
Rather than being accountable to
“keep the lights on”
“respond to user tickets”
“collect and deliver business requirements”
(which is how they used to view you).
And they will begin to hold you accountable to outcomes.
Now leadership realizes what a data team can really do to accelerate business goals.
You’ve started telling a new story to leadership and it sounds like this: “here’s how we contributed to these key business outcomes.”
Don’t be surprised when the expectations flip, and they start asking you: “How are you contributing to these key business outcomes?”
Pretty soon, budget, headcount, technology initiatives, and access to “be in the room” is dependent on that question.
You’ve been warned. If you begin delivering on key outcomes that move the business forward.
Leadership will like it.
And they will expect more of it from you*
I’m here,
Sawyer
from The Data Shop
*That’s where we all want to be anyways. So maybe it’s a feature and not a side-effect.
