Organizations need to design, hire and manage their analytical teams. All organizations want their analytics teams and function to perform in a highly effective manner, but analytics teams are not like development teams or typical project teams and require a different approach. So what are the best practices relating to investing in, hiring and managing your analytics team? How to manage its growth into hybrid organizations? Are there any robust analytics processes that could be used to derive results in the real world and a way to "productionize" these processes? In this episode, John Thompson and I discussed the best practices relating to investing in, hiring and managing your analytics team. We covered what makes analytical teams different, how to hire and manage high performance and operational impact, and much more.