I work in this field and I flatly reject that the purpose of a ‘business intelligence’ team is to “develop profound new business capabilities” or ”organise the data scientists such that they are optimized to learn”.
What planet are you on?
Such a team is absolutely not a pure research team, devoted to investigating the data and driving new capability and insights.
The purpose of such a team is to facilitate the business
to have operational insight into the state of the business, and serve the business as the business requires to deliver business as value.
What the article proposes is like having a development team that has 100% time to pursue their interests and build whatever they like to show to the business to develop new business capability.
There is a place for such a team, and a data science team as described, but like google X, a very specialised thing for companies that can afford to dream.
...not for everyday engineering teams.
Generalists vs specialists is a straw man, obviously you have both.
What planet are you on?
Such a team is absolutely not a pure research team, devoted to investigating the data and driving new capability and insights.
The purpose of such a team is to facilitate the business to have operational insight into the state of the business, and serve the business as the business requires to deliver business as value.
What the article proposes is like having a development team that has 100% time to pursue their interests and build whatever they like to show to the business to develop new business capability.
There is a place for such a team, and a data science team as described, but like google X, a very specialised thing for companies that can afford to dream.
...not for everyday engineering teams.
Generalists vs specialists is a straw man, obviously you have both.