The Advocating for Analytics blog series is an important part of the JMP Customer Reference Program. While traditional customer success stories present a deep dive into how a customer is using our software to solve specific data challenges, Advocating for Analytics is a place where JMP power users can reflect on how their advocacy for analytics and relationship with the JMP organization has impacted their personal career growth.
Who is a good candidate?
- Any JMP user you consider a champion or advocate.
- Someone who has matured in their use of analytics approaches.
- Someone who has played an active role in a JMP user group, Discovery Summit, the Early Adopter program, etc.
- Someone who is interested in sharing career advice related to their involvement in analytics initiatives.
What are the advantages to the blog (versus a success story)?
- The "interview" for this series is all done via email. The customer will select 5-6 questions to respond to in writing.
- It's not at all time consuming! In theory, responding to 5-6 questions should take less than 30 minutes.
- It's easier to get a blog Q&A approved than a typical success story because the blog focuses on an individual JMP advocate, not their organization. As such, the blog is ideal for customers who have some concerns about navigating their employer's policy on reference/endorsement activities.
I know a JMP advocate who might be a good candidate. What should I do next?
- Send an email introducing your contact to me (meg.eberle@jmp). Please feel free to use the sample email text below.
SAMPLE EMAIL
We’ve created a new blog series, Advocating for Analytics, to inspire JMP users to become leaders in their organization’s analytics transformation. Each post features a Q&A between a JMP ‘power user’ like yourself and my colleague, Meg Eberle, our Customer Reference Manager. As an example, I’d recommend checking out this Q&A with an advocate at PCC Structurals.
When this series was first announced, I immediately thought of you. Given your history with JMP and the role I know you’ve played in advancing analytics enablement at [COMPANY], I think you’d have an interesting perspective to share. Is that something you might be interested in?
The process is meant to be an easy lift on your part. You would select 5 or 6 questions from the list below to respond to in writing, and it can all be done via email. As you’ll note, they’re relatively high-level prompts – e.g., how you’ve overcome skepticism from colleagues of new statistical approaches, how you’ve built a relationship with the JMP organization through Discovery Summits and users groups, how advocating for analytics has helped your career, etc. Your responses would be copyedited before they’re posted to the blog, but not editorialized. You’ll be sent a draft of the post, including title and introduction, and invited to review/edit before it is posted. And it goes without saying that we will not publish anything without your explicit approval.
If you’re game, I’ll put you in touch with Meg and she’ll take it from there.
Please chose ~5 to respond to:
- How has your advocacy for analytics transformation impacted your career trajectory? Have you encountered career opportunities that might not have been available to you before?
- How did you engage leadership to secure their buy-in and support for your vision?
- What are some of the hurdles you’ve had to overcome in your advocacy for analytics and how did you resolve those objections?
- How has the democratization of analytics to domain experts changed the nature of your role as someone leading analytics transformation?
- One of the most common objections we hear from newcomers to JMP is that some fear statistical approaches will supplant domain expertise. How has having JMP changed the relationship between statistical experts and domain experts at [COMPANY]? How do these changes reflect your vision for a more analytics-capable organization?
- Introducing new statistical methods or tools can be disruptive at first. But, as we know, the benefits of an effective analytics strategy outweigh the initial costs. What kinds of ROI or improvements have helped to build and sustain momentum for data initiatives?
- Tell us about your relationship with the JMP organization. What value do you get from participating in Discovery Summits, users’ groups, training, STIPS, the online JMP Community, the Early Adopter program, etc.?
- What advice would you give to someone looking to cultivate a more mature analytics culture in their organization?
- What advice would you give to someone who is just starting out with JMP?
- What advice would you give to university students looking to pursue a similar career path?
