Impact and influence

Impact and influence

Impact fields

• Operational (...%)
• Strategic (...%)
• Organization (10%)

Operational

• clear and scoped.
• help XFN team be unblocked; valuable.
• do not take up all out time.
• push back if not make sense.
• how to scale repetitive tasks. reproducible.
• dashboard thus team can access key metrics.
• analyze experiments to determine if a feature is shippable.
• waterfall/funnel analysis

Strategic

• Base on data.
• Terminate as soon as finding project does not work out.
• When it lands, it's likely to have the largest impact.

So, how can we successful land a strategic impact?

- clear hypothesis; get signals ASAP

- get context; ask questions and understand XFN partners think/

- learn as much about the history of the problem/product.

- look for previous analysis/roadmaps/notes

- broader market

- pay attention to analyses done in other product areas.

Form an opinion.

Organization

• Mentoring new hires
• Organizing org-wide conferences
• Give out trainings
• etc.

How do analytics have better impact?

Share -> Influence -> Impact!

• Simple and precise. tldr;
• Focus
• Organize thoughts in a compelling way
• Decide on the format that best conveys the story
• Connecting the dots for your audience.
• Add actionable insight
• Iterate; ask yourself questions is this enough.
• Follow up with people.
• Find the right venue and people.
• Meet with team leads/PM.
• Take it to the finish line.
• Relationship the people around you.
• Get active; regular 1:1s.
• Ask.
• Find what's importatn.
• Listen.
• Be proactive.