Comments on: The six data-savvy work personas http://gigaom.com/2011/10/12/the-six-data-savvy-work-personas/ Wed, 22 May 2013 04:40:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Joan E. Beaudoin http://gigaom.com/2011/10/12/the-six-data-savvy-work-personas/#comment-708646 Wed, 30 Nov 2011 15:20:35 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=414184#comment-708646 The Six Data-Savy Work Personas – http://t.co/az6ichXC

]]> By: Julian Schwarzenbach http://gigaom.com/2011/10/12/the-six-data-savvy-work-personas/#comment-668334 Wed, 26 Oct 2011 19:42:55 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=414184#comment-668334 Terri,
Some interesting research and conclusions which partially covers the behaviours in our Data Zoo concept (see http://www.thedatazoo.com) where your Compass/Captain are similar to our Data Evangelist and the Miner/Scout are similar to our Data Drill.
It is interesting to note that all six of your data personalities are very positive, however, in our experience organisations typically have a range of behaviours towards data which include neutral and negative behaviours. For example, the Data Squirrel lovingly maintains their own store of data which often is not in corporate data stores, the Data Anarchist will be extremely critical of all corporate IT and will create their own systems in Excel/Access or similar.
The challenge as a manager/data professional is not just to recognise these behaviours, but also to recognise the organisational drivers which are encouraging such behaviours. When you have identified these then you are in a strong position to start to change people’s data behaviours to be more positive.
If you are interested in finding out more, down load our Data Zoo white paper from the URL above.

Julian Schwarzenbach
Data and Process Advantage

]]> By: Graham Savai'i Hart http://gigaom.com/2011/10/12/the-six-data-savvy-work-personas/#comment-666441 Thu, 20 Oct 2011 14:48:23 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=414184#comment-666441 I’m like a Scouting Compass by these guidelines! Or maybe an InfoPro if I had to choose only one…

]]> By: Emil http://gigaom.com/2011/10/12/the-six-data-savvy-work-personas/#comment-665848 Tue, 18 Oct 2011 23:40:12 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=414184#comment-665848 A limitation in this model is that it’s primarily focused on data consumption and re-processing and not the creation and development of that data. Particularly in enterprise instances, choices made about what data to capture from operations makes a vast difference in what becomes available to each of the personas above. There is at least a seventh type that is balancing all of these various needs and working closely with the InfoPros to insure that IT systems are generating useful and relevant data for the organization. This seventh type needs the same sort of data-savvy but is not fulfilling the cultural filter function of the InfoPro’s analysis.

]]> By: pankajunk http://gigaom.com/2011/10/12/the-six-data-savvy-work-personas/#comment-664387 Thu, 13 Oct 2011 21:29:01 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=414184#comment-664387 That’s the one! I think one important part of a collaboration implementation is to take team persona and company culture into account.

]]> By: t2 http://gigaom.com/2011/10/12/the-six-data-savvy-work-personas/#comment-664383 Thu, 13 Oct 2011 21:20:32 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=414184#comment-664383 Was it this one from IBM-Almaden team? http://www.parc.com/content/events/attachments/Matthews-CollabPersonas.pdf

]]> By: pankajunk http://gigaom.com/2011/10/12/the-six-data-savvy-work-personas/#comment-664286 Thu, 13 Oct 2011 17:42:56 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=414184#comment-664286 Nice article. Reminds me of a similar “collaboration personas” article i had come across.

]]> By: Guest http://gigaom.com/2011/10/12/the-six-data-savvy-work-personas/#comment-664275 Thu, 13 Oct 2011 17:11:45 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=414184#comment-664275 Problem with IT is it seems to be drastically different from software, and yet people usually lump them together.

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