Lessons from Building a 2,700-Person Analytics Team (Dave Frankenfield, VP Enterprise Data & Analytics, Optum)

<p><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidfrankenfield/" target="_self"><span style="color: rgb(17,85,204);background-color: transparent;font-size: 12pt;font-family: Arial;"><ins>Dave Frankenfield</ins></span></a><span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);background-color: transparent;font-size: 12pt;font-family: Arial;">, VP Enterprise Data and Analytics at </span><a href="https://www.optum.com/" target="_self"><span style="color: rgb(17,85,204);background-color: transparent;font-size: 12pt;font-family: Arial;"><ins>Optum</ins></span></a><span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);background-color: transparent;font-size: 12pt;font-family: Arial;">, oversees a team of 2,700 data professionals. How do you structure a team of that size? What functions does it cover? And how does it collaborate with and deliver value to the rest of the company?</span><br></p> <p><span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);background-color: transparent;font-size: 12pt;font-family: Arial;">In this episode, Dave discusses the strategies he’s used to build his team, the lessons he’s learned, and the advice he has for data science leaders scaling teams of any size in the enterprise.</span><br></p> <p><span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);background-color: transparent;font-size: 12pt;font-family: Arial;">The conversation covers:</span></p> <ul> <li><span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);background-color: transparent;font-size: 12pt;font-family: Arial;">Building an analytics team from the ground up</span></li> <li><span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);background-color: transparent;font-size: 12pt;font-family: Arial;">Approaches to managing shadow IT</span></li> <li><span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);background-color: transparent;font-size: 12pt;font-family: Arial;">Tradeoffs between distributed vs. delegated data science teams</span><br></li> </ul> <p><span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);background-color: transparent;font-size: 12pt;font-family: Arial;"><em>Tune in on </em></span><a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/data-science-leaders/id1564587119" target="_self"><span style="color: rgb(17,85,