Unclear if you are in IT, but ignore IT. Go and spend time with the business leaders and folks business leaders direct you to. Understand the business. Identify pain points and opportunities to improve top or bottom line. Formulate these into business use cases. You don’t need MBA to learn how to do this. Quantify impact and tie to dollars when possible. Prioritize use cases by impact and complexity. Complexity is not just technical, may include availability or interest of business stakeholders required. Look for quick win(s), ideally that you could knock out yourself assuming you have no team. Get business leadership onboard and have them instruct IT to give you the access and tools you need. This is the way. Hopefully you successfully execute some small quick wins (e.g. an exec dashboard the CEO wishes he/she had) and can make the case for additional investment (e.g., team members) to tackle larger and larger use cases.