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How do you strike a balance between information-gathering/data-analysis
and report-creating/insight-sharing at your job?

In other words, we as Web Analysts are paid to PRODUCE, am I right?

What percentage of what you do would you say is thinking and education,
and what percentage is making something tangible?

I'm curious; what do you think is the "Proper" balance?
Sat Mar 22, 2008 7:47 pm

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How do you strike a balance between information-gathering/data-analysis and report-creating/insight-sharing at your job? In other words, we as Web Analysts are... 		Nathan
zangatling
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8:17 pm

I think that the real value we bring to the conversation is the thinking and producing insights. Unfortunately, the creating of reports takes a lot of time....
malincoleridge
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4:28 pm

Thanks for that, to both of you. I'm relating the most to Malin, because I'm not a consultant like Deborah, but it sounds like both of you focus more on...
Nathan
zangatling
Offline Send Email 		Mar 25, 2008
8:17 pm

Well, I'm a consultant, which can have different pressures than being an employee, but I'm most certainly not paid to produce (or I avoid those clients!). My...
Debora Geary
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8:17 pm

I would argue that we're not paid to PRODUCE, we're paid to bring insight. A farmer PRODUCE lettuce and carrots for someone else to transform into salad... a...
Stephane Hamel
shamel67
Offline Send Email 		Mar 26, 2008
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