Often, the job of a data team is not directly to produce value. It is to support value creation through observability. Observability gives the business side in

Often, the job of a data team is not directly to produce value. It is to support value creation through observability. Observability gives the business side intuition and knowledge about how the business works. The fact is, no one in the organization can get visibility at scale into their operations without a data team. Now, I have argued before that data teams can and should also focus converting knowledge into action. This moves data teams out of a passive, reactive role into a proactive, value-creating role.