Post by Gregg Caplitz on Jul 21, 2021 13:59:55 GMT
What are two thoughts that stood out for you in each of the readings?
I found the idea of finding your own internal data geek from “How Your Organization Can Embrace Data” very interesting. Well numbers themselves certainly don’t intimidate me the concept of extracting them from the technology is much more challenging to me. The idea of finding an “internal data geek may make the entire process far less stressful to me.
Fostering a Culture of Transparency from the Nonprofit Leadership Cheat is an Intriguing concept. I have been in business long enough to remember when data was neither transparent nor shared. It was considered the most proprietary of information and needed to be protected at all cost. The idea that data should not only be shared but transparently done so was certainly a
How might you apply these learnings to your everyday work? Please give a specific example.
The idea of an internal data geek is quite fascinating to me. CWS is one of the smaller divisions of FedCap but we have continued to grow during this difficult time. Identifying someone who could assist us in generating data that shows the statistical rational behind our success would be quite helpful to us to systemize what we are doing right and learn how to improve what we are doing wrong.
The idea of data transparency supports the idea from above of the internal data geek. We can identify areas of strength and areas of needed improvement thus improving our ability to manage towards the specific institutional goal.
When have metrics mattered in your professional experience?
I come from a strong sales background. The metrics I have traditionally measured most closely revolve around contacts, appointments and closes. As my position at CWS has moved more and more to a revenue generating position I have continued to use similar tactics by measuring number of grants applied and RFP bid on to see what our success rate as a team is. I have also measured total revenues year over year. While these statistics are somewhat crude they are easily measurable. We clearly need to become more sophisticated in what we do in term of gathering and measuring statistics.
How do you use data in your current role—would you describe your team as data driven?
What an excellent question. Clearly, our leadership team is but is the rank-and-file data driven? I think the answer to that is no. We have a bit of a ‘seat of the pants” approach to day-to-day activities. I think this is clearly an area we can improve on with input from home office.
I found the idea of finding your own internal data geek from “How Your Organization Can Embrace Data” very interesting. Well numbers themselves certainly don’t intimidate me the concept of extracting them from the technology is much more challenging to me. The idea of finding an “internal data geek may make the entire process far less stressful to me.
Fostering a Culture of Transparency from the Nonprofit Leadership Cheat is an Intriguing concept. I have been in business long enough to remember when data was neither transparent nor shared. It was considered the most proprietary of information and needed to be protected at all cost. The idea that data should not only be shared but transparently done so was certainly a
How might you apply these learnings to your everyday work? Please give a specific example.
The idea of an internal data geek is quite fascinating to me. CWS is one of the smaller divisions of FedCap but we have continued to grow during this difficult time. Identifying someone who could assist us in generating data that shows the statistical rational behind our success would be quite helpful to us to systemize what we are doing right and learn how to improve what we are doing wrong.
The idea of data transparency supports the idea from above of the internal data geek. We can identify areas of strength and areas of needed improvement thus improving our ability to manage towards the specific institutional goal.
When have metrics mattered in your professional experience?
I come from a strong sales background. The metrics I have traditionally measured most closely revolve around contacts, appointments and closes. As my position at CWS has moved more and more to a revenue generating position I have continued to use similar tactics by measuring number of grants applied and RFP bid on to see what our success rate as a team is. I have also measured total revenues year over year. While these statistics are somewhat crude they are easily measurable. We clearly need to become more sophisticated in what we do in term of gathering and measuring statistics.
How do you use data in your current role—would you describe your team as data driven?
What an excellent question. Clearly, our leadership team is but is the rank-and-file data driven? I think the answer to that is no. We have a bit of a ‘seat of the pants” approach to day-to-day activities. I think this is clearly an area we can improve on with input from home office.
