BI analysts need three things: understanding how the business actually works, knowing data fundamentals, and building dashboards with an ownership mindset. Think like you're responsible for the function itself, not just making charts.
Chapters
Are there any skills that you think are important for business intelligence analysts to learn? You have to understand how the business works. You obviously need the foundational understanding of sort of data, movement and all of those sorts of things. Those are well trained and pretty obvious to people. You want to understand what is driving the business and how and why, and that's going to help all of your analysis be better. Build the sales dashboard like you're responsible for sales. Don't build it like someone asked you to build a sales dashboard. When you're responsible for sales and you build that dashboard, you're going to ask the next question about every single thing that you have there and you're going to find the thing that is missing there.