narrowing the focus of the project on the challenge to be solved.

capacity to invest into high-level analytics solutions.

ability to facilitate

communication between business leaders and data experts.

aligning data

efforts and projects with strategy right from the start.

disciplined

thinking in terms of problem awareness, solution implementation, and expected impact.

ability to disregard the obstacles set by organizational culture.

separating business strategy and leadership strictly from operative processes and customer-facing employees.