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VP of Data & Analytics

Build and manage the analytics and BI function

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What You Do Today

Deliver business intelligence to every department — dashboards, reports, ad-hoc analysis, and self-service capabilities. Manage the analytics team that translates data into actionable insights.

AI That Applies

AI-powered analytics platforms that auto-generate insights, detect anomalies, and answer natural language queries against business data.

Technologies

How It Works

For build and manage the analytics and bi function, the system draws on the relevant operational data and applies the appropriate analytical models. The processing layer applies the appropriate analytical models to the structured data, generating scored outputs that surface the most actionable insights. The results integrate into the practitioner's existing workflow — presenting recommendations, flags, or automated outputs alongside their normal working context.

What Changes

Business users can ask questions of their data in plain English. Many routine reporting requests get self-served, freeing analysts for complex analysis.

What Stays

Translating data into business narrative, identifying the analysis that will actually change a decision, and building trust in data across the organization — those require human expertise.

What To Do Next

This section won't tell you what your numbers should be. It will show you how to find them yourself. Every instruction below produces a real, verifiable result in your organization. No benchmarks, no projections — just the steps to build your own evidence.

1

Establish Your Baseline

Know where you are before you move

Before adopting AI tools for build and manage the analytics and bi function, understand your current state.

Map your current process: Document how build and manage the analytics and bi function works today — who does what, how long it takes, where the bottlenecks are. You need this baseline to measure improvement.
Identify the judgment points: Translating data into business narrative, identifying the analysis that will actually change a decision, and building trust in data across the organization — those require human expertise. These are the boundaries AI won't cross.
Assess your data readiness: AI tools for this area need data to work. Check whether your organization has the historical data, integrations, and data quality to support Tableau tools.

Without a baseline, you can't measure whether AI actually improved anything. You'll adopt tools without knowing if they're working.

2

Define Your Measures

What to track and how to calculate it

Time per cycle

How to calculate

Measure how long build and manage the analytics and bi function takes end-to-end today, then after AI adoption.

Why it matters

The most visible improvement is speed. If AI doesn't save time, question whether it's adding value.

Quality of output

How to calculate

Track error rates, rework frequency, or stakeholder satisfaction scores before and after.

Why it matters

Speed without quality is just faster mistakes. Measure both.

When to check: Check after 30 days of consistent use, then quarterly.
The commitment: Give new tools at least 30 days before judging. The first week is always awkward.
What NOT to measure: Don't measure AI adoption rate as a KPI. Adoption follows value — if the tool helps, people use it.
3

Start These Conversations

Who to talk to and what to ask

your board chair or lead independent director

Which of our current reports are manually assembled, and how much time does that take each cycle?

They shape expectations for how AI appears in governance

your CTO or CIO

What questions do stakeholders actually ask that our current reporting doesn't answer?

They own the technology infrastructure that enables AI adoption

4

Check Your Prerequisites

Confirm readiness before you invest

Check items as you confirm them.