In which I ghost-write part 2 of Avinash's post

In my last post, I pointed you to Avinash's post about Reporting Squirrels versus Analysis Ninjas. My focus in that post is the underlying concern of "return on analytics" or lack thereof. This post takes up Avinash's argument directly. Think of this as part 2 of Avinash's post if he had kept on writing. Avinash's summary of his post is as follows: Reporting Squirrel type work has a minor incremental impact on a company's bottom-line, hence your career progression will be on a slower track. Analysis Ninja work on the other hand does (even though their output is not numbers,...