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Not necessarily. Or more precisely, the intuition doesn't have to be in the domain itself. I've done operational improvement work across supply chain/inventory

by cosmie 9y ago

Not necessarily. Or more precisely, the intuition doesn't have to be in the domain itself. I've done operational improvement work across supply chain/inventory management, marketing, digital analytics, ecommerce, healthcare revenue cycle management, and call center operations. In almost every case I started with little if any direct domain knowledge. The intuition that was valuable for my work was around systems-oriented thinking applied to business processes and being able to quickly suss out weak or suspiciously opaque areas of the system. The necessary domain knowledge to do so was always picked up from domain experts as I went along. In fact, taking a naive approach on domain knowledge has always worked in my favor to uncover invalid assumptions that those with domain knowledge just accepted without question.

v3rt 9y ago
What kind of work has exposed you to so many areas; are you a data consultant (and if so do you work for yourself or a bigger shop?)
- cosmie 9y ago
  It was a bit of a winding process, but essentially early on in my career I learned that I fit this[1] description very well. And stumbled upon the same fact that patio11 did: it's incredibly hard for most companies to consistently fill that type of role. And now that I have a history of succeeding in those types of roles, it's a lot easier to talk my way into new ones. That said, you're spot on that the core of what I do is data consulting, although most of it falls under a domain-specific name and has been W2, internal consulting roles. I'm actually in the process of switching my full time role to a less demanding one so I can focus on ramping up my actual consulting business.
  - cosmie 9y ago
    Whoops, just realized I left off the reference and it's too late to edit. Here it is: https://mobile.twitter.com/patio11/status/936616624378978304 https://mobile.twitter.com/patio11/status/936616624378978304

by cosmie 9y ago

v3rt 9y ago

What kind of work has exposed you to so many areas; are you a data consultant (and if so do you work for yourself or a bigger shop?)

cosmie 9y ago
It was a bit of a winding process, but essentially early on in my career I learned that I fit this[1] description very well. And stumbled upon the same fact that patio11 did: it's incredibly hard for most companies to consistently fill that type of role. And now that I have a history of succeeding in those types of roles, it's a lot easier to talk my way into new ones. That said, you're spot on that the core of what I do is data consulting, although most of it falls under a domain-specific name and has been W2, internal consulting roles. I'm actually in the process of switching my full time role to a less demanding one so I can focus on ramping up my actual consulting business.
- cosmie 9y ago
  Whoops, just realized I left off the reference and it's too late to edit. Here it is: https://mobile.twitter.com/patio11/status/936616624378978304 https://mobile.twitter.com/patio11/status/936616624378978304