What are some good "beginner level" data modeling/analytics approaches to kick start a data science/analytics team?

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What are some good "beginner level" data modeling/analytics approaches to kick start a data science/analytics team?

So I have recently joined a brand new data analytics team at an Ecommerce startup, and I have to decide how to start showing our worth to the rest of the company. What should we start with? Churn Analytics? Propensity models? Micro segmentation for our email receivers? What can I do which is possibly a low-hanging fruit which will also "wow" our stakeholders? Any suggestion is helpful. Thanks!

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ATA It sounds like you have medium-sized data, good understanding of it, and pretty good data engineering...

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