BigDataFr recommends: Are you the brilliant data scientist no one listens to?

[…] Data science is a relationship game. Sure, it’s about numbers and models and analytics, but as data scientists in even the most advanced, digitally-savvy organizations can testify, an inch-thick model library and a shelf full of advanced degrees only gets one so far.
 
No matter how potentially game-changing the techniques are, if you can’t persuade others to use them, and you don’t have a seat where the thorniest business problems are discussed, then all that specialist expertise doesn’t matter.
 
Effective relationships aren’t built through the occasional lunch or division-wide meeting, though. They’re built in the course of doing something concrete and when parties are willing to invest some effort. That’s when people become believers. […]

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By Matt Ariker
Source: www.mckinsey.com