If you are developing your business unit for ‘industrial’ scale, you will want to create an analytics business architecture. It is primarily a way to communicate scope, plans, strategy, milestones etc. around the many aspects of advanced analytics that you should be addressing as you mature the unit. This is a visual of the planning boxes that make up the current and future state of advanced analytics for your company. It will also be a way to establish roles and responsibilities inside your business unit as it grows.
What is it? It’s a diagram, on a single page that links ‘buckets’ of functions into a coherent and compelling picture. In the spirit of open source, the category list of this blog represents a business architecture. It’s a fully elaborated business unit thought process for parts of this science that need your attention and a way to educate others for activities outside of models and algorithms.
I invite you to elaborate on my version. This science is changing and growing significantly. As such, what you need to plan for will change over time and be dynamically reshaped.
The Analytic Executive 