<description>&lt;p&gt;This episode of Dollars to Donuts features my conversation with Tamara Hale, the Director of Product Experience &amp;#8211; Research &amp;#038; Insights at Splunk. We talk about the long tail of impact, being an anthropologist of work, and having a creative practice. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;The ‘doing the research’ bit is only about a quarter of your job. The rest of it is all the other stuff that goes around it. It&amp;#8217;s about storytelling and influence and developing a vision and creating alignment around who the customers are and creating alignment on what actually are the business goals. It&amp;#8217;s your stakeholder mapping. It&amp;#8217;s your internal research. It&amp;#8217;s your knowledge management. It&amp;#8217;s improving how we work. All that stuff is part of research, and if you only think of your job as that quarter, you&amp;#8217;re missing out on some of the most interesting and also trickiest parts of the job.&lt;/em&gt; &amp;#8211; Tamara Hale&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h4 id="showlinks"&gt;Show Links&lt;/h4&gt;
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&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://portigal.com/dollars-to-donuts-tamara-hale-of-splunk#Transcript"&gt;Episode transcript&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/tamhale/"&gt;Tamara Hale&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://splunk.com/"&gt;Splunk&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt; &lt;a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/lovejoytracey/"&gt;Tracey Lovejoy&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://catalystconstellations.com/"&gt;Catalyst Constellations&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://2024.epicpeople.org/blurring-the-lines/"&gt;Blurring the Lines: Building a collaborative dialogue from the intersection of creative practice, ethnography and business&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Help other people find Dollars to Donuts by leaving a &lt;a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/dollars-to-donuts/id956673263?mt=2" &gt;review on Apple Podcasts&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;The post &lt;a href="https://portigal.com/podcast/51-tamara-hale-of-splunk/"&gt;51. Tamara Hale of Splunk&lt;/a&gt; first appeared on &lt;a href="https://portigal.com"&gt;Portigal Consulting&lt;/a&gt;.</description>

Dollars to Donuts

Steve Portigal

51. Tamara Hale of Splunk

JUL 3, 202478 MIN
Dollars to Donuts

51. Tamara Hale of Splunk

JUL 3, 202478 MIN

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<p>This episode of Dollars to Donuts features my conversation with Tamara Hale, the Director of Product Experience &#8211; Research &#038; Insights at Splunk. We talk about the long tail of impact, being an anthropologist of work, and having a creative practice. </p> <p><em>The ‘doing the research’ bit is only about a quarter of your job. The rest of it is all the other stuff that goes around it. It&#8217;s about storytelling and influence and developing a vision and creating alignment around who the customers are and creating alignment on what actually are the business goals. It&#8217;s your stakeholder mapping. It&#8217;s your internal research. It&#8217;s your knowledge management. It&#8217;s improving how we work. All that stuff is part of research, and if you only think of your job as that quarter, you&#8217;re missing out on some of the most interesting and also trickiest parts of the job.</em> &#8211; Tamara Hale</p> <h4 id="showlinks">Show Links</h4> <ul> <li><a href="https://portigal.com/dollars-to-donuts-tamara-hale-of-splunk#Transcript">Episode transcript</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/tamhale/">Tamara Hale</a></li> <li><a href="http://splunk.com/">Splunk</a></li> <li> <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/lovejoytracey/">Tracey Lovejoy</a> </li> <li><a href="https://catalystconstellations.com/">Catalyst Constellations</a> </li> <li><a href="https://2024.epicpeople.org/blurring-the-lines/">Blurring the Lines: Building a collaborative dialogue from the intersection of creative practice, ethnography and business</a></li> </ul> <p>Help other people find Dollars to Donuts by leaving a <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/dollars-to-donuts/id956673263?mt=2" >review on Apple Podcasts</a>.</p>The post <a href="https://portigal.com/podcast/51-tamara-hale-of-splunk/">51. Tamara Hale of Splunk</a> first appeared on <a href="https://portigal.com">Portigal Consulting</a>.