News and articles of note

See this selection of articles covering to most important topics in analytics at the moment.

  • What Great Analytics Talent Looks Like in the Age of AI The analytics job market is transforming faster than ever. AI can now code, visualise data, and summarise insights - yet finding truly impactful analytics professionals has never been harder. This article is written for hiring managers, who want to identify great analytics talent in this new era, as well as for data professionals and job seekers who want to understand what skills matter most for the future. The takeaway is clear: while automation handles more technical tasks, human centric, strategic, and interpretive skills are becoming the true differentiators.
  • Co-Intelligence: The Next Frontier of Ethical AI Governance AI is no longer just a tool we program. It is becoming an intelligent collaborator that helps co create ideas, improve business decisions, and transform how organisations learn and act. We are entering the era of co-intelligence, where human insight and machine intelligence intersect. This evolution raises a new governance challenge. The question is no longer “Can AI do this?” but “Should it, and who decides?”
  • Accelerating Analytics Adoption With Cognitive Load Aware Communication Adoption lags when cognitive load is high. Use signposting and a point first communication style to cut noise, manage inherent complexity, and accelerate analytics adoption.
  • Without Great Leadership – We are wasting the Diversity in Analytics Teams Analytic teams which are made of people from different backgrounds, genders, ethnicity, training, experiences and ways of thinking bring different perspectives to problems, and projects result in better outcomes, primarily through challenging bias and groupthink.
  • Proving ROI in the Generative-AI Era: A Guide for Analytics Leaders Artificial intelligence and analytics is no longer a distant aspiration - it is a practical force reshaping every corner of business. Gartner recently counted 196 enterprise-grade conversational-AI platforms alone; factor in agents, optimisation, and predictive-analytics tools across every domain, and we are talking about thousands of solutions jostling for executive attention and market share.
  • A Service Dominant approach to Analytics Transformation It is crucial to distinguish between simply doing analytics and undertaking an Analytics Transformation. Analytics is the exploitation of data to find meaningful relationships and actionable insights which create business value, limited by objective and scope.
  • Embedding Ethics in AI: Memorable Governance Frameworks As AI accelerates at breakneck speed, it’s all too easy to get caught up in the momentum and skip over the safeguards - but without strong guardrails and clear governance, the risks can outpace the rewards.
  • The Evolving Landscape of Data and Analytics: Skills and Talent in the Age of AI The data and analytics landscape is evolving at remarkable speed, yet an old adage remains relevant: “the more things change, the more they stay the same”.
  • When Data Integrity Meets Business Pressure: Cut the Data not the Truth In the world of data analytics, you often find yourself balancing the needs of the stakeholder with the reality of what the data reveals. We’re tasked with telling stories from numbers, bringing insights to life, and informing critical decisions.
  • Whatever Happened to Big Data? It’s been a decade since I first heard the phrase “Big Data.” I was told that it represented the future and that those of us in ‘reporting’ roles needed to take note, as it would transform our lives and the lives of those around us.
  • Skills for the Next Era of Data We’re living through one of the most exciting and overwhelming periods in the data world. Tools evolve faster than job descriptions can keep up. One year it’s advanced modelling, the next it’s cloud-native workflows, and now it’s Gen AI.
  • Top 25 Report 2023 Analytics leaders are the linchpin to the successful delivery of business value from analytics. Analytics is now a key part of modern business and the IAPA Top 25 Analytics Leaders is the only industry recognition of the profession's best and brightest leaders.