E46 - Brant Cooper - Applying Lean Methodology in Data Analytics

We have here among us at The Analytics Show, a New York Times
best-selling author Brant Cooper.


His most famous books are The Lean Entrepreneur and The
Entrepreneur's Guide to Customer Development.


Brant is all about disruption for the better through the
effective utilization of business technologies. He trains
thousands of entrepreneurs and corporate executives globally on
new and advanced techniques of management, business development,
product launch, and disruption.


His next book, Disruption For All, is right now on Pre-Order.


Brant blends agile, design thinking, and lean methodologies to
ignite entrepreneurial action within organizations of all sizes.
His mission is to teach leaders how to find personal and economic
growth by creating new value for fellow humans.


Brant’s professional experience in sales, management, marketing,
and project management spans over two decades of a successful and
illustrious career. His startup career includes Tumbleweed,
Timestamp, WildPackets, inCode, and many others. He is also a
renowned keynote speaker, business, and management trainer.


He has founded his own company, Moves the Needle (MTN), in 2013.
The company has been successfully helping many Fortune 500
clients to innovate and discover new product opportunities,
develop existing products and processes, and drive business
growth. MTN’s clients include Qualcomm, Intuit, Capital One, and
Pitney Bowes, among others.


In this exclusive episode, Brant discusses the following aspects
surrounding lean methodologies and data and analytics:


Role of data and analytic when it comes to lean methodology
and ecosystem.

How entrepreneurs and corporate entities can utilize data and
different metrics while incorporating lean methodologies.

How your data science team can be brought into the
picture.

Benefits of self-publishing books as an entrepreneur.

Dynamics of exploration and uncertainty for startups and
corporate innovators.

The use of the 5Es – Empathy, Experiments, Evidence,
Equilibrium & Ethics – from business to everyday life.

How startups can maintain their ethics and primary objective
of value creation for humanity as they surf the growth
stages.

The dangers of having silos and departments within an
organization and why the organizational structure should be built
around agility and customer journey.

Using the learning impact metric framework for team building
and product innovation.

Tips and guidelines for managing cross-functional
teams.

Why internal startups and innovation labs don’t work and what
organisations should do instead.



If you are mid-level or senior manager managing teams, believe in
agile methodology and lean methodology this episode you should
not miss!


BusinessAnalytics, Entrepreneurship, LeanMethodology, Innovation,
DataScience, Agile, DataAnalytics