Why do companies say they want to modernize their data analytics capabilities but assign the budget to hire a college intern who uses a Microsoft Excel and doesn’t even know what Python is

You would think a big Fortune 500 company would understand the immense growth opportunities (and monetary costs) of modernizing their data analytics capabilities, but they honestly don’t. Management is so disconnected from reality that it’s infuriating. This has caused me to become REALLY jaded about big corporate. At every all hands meeting, the executives say they want to use artificial intelligence and use modern cloud infrastructure and AWS and NLP and machine learning and use big data to make decisions, …

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