Our Operating principle

Realize the value of your data through Principle’s strategic and technical solutions. Our data consulting services ensure that your business has the right tools and resources to create predictive insights and decision support solutions.  Our process of collecting and analyzing product data from multiple digital sources to inform product and marketing strategies.

Data & Insights Operating Principles

We are proud, yet humbled to be the Center of Excellence for Data & Insights at one of the world’s most innovative companies.

Build A Better Team

• We treat everyone with respect
• We have permission to disagree, but must drive to commitment
• We don’t hide from difficult conversations
• We’re in this together as a team
• We tackle mistakes as a team and seek to get better

Deliver Results That Matter

• Data-Driven First, Data-Informed Second, Principles & Stories Third
• We believe in built to last, not built too fast
• We operate with a growth mindset, continually raising the standard
• We don’t confuse activity with progress
• We know how our work aligns with strategic initiatives and how it will help our Business Partners deliver impactful results
• We go the extra mile to provide Context, Facts, and Insights
• We define expectations up front: Scope, Time, and Success Criteria
• We proactively engage with our Business Partners to ensure regular progress for important initiatives

Create Trusted & Scalable Data Solutions

• We all have a responsibility for Data Security and Data Quality
• We lead with well-tested and accurate Data Solutions
• We operate and maintain the production solutions we create
• We maximize the capabilities and services of our vendor-partners
• We believe the best way to align on a complex outcome is to picture it
• Automated tests are the best tests and we implement tests at every step of the data delivery process

Additional beliefs held by the Data Team include:

• Everything can and should be defined in code and version controlled
• Data implementations should integrate best practices from DevOps into their workflow
• Partner with each Business function while having a high-quality, maintainable code base
• Open source our code, keeping data security and data sensitivity in mind
• There is a single source of truth for every analytic question within a company, and it is also important to represent multiple perspectives to provide the most thorough data insights
• Focus our limited resources where data will have the greatest impact
• All business users should be able to learn how to interpret and calculate simple statistics