Driven By Data: The Podcast

Searching for a weekly dose of inspiration and insight? Look no further!   Driven by Data | The Podcast is positioned to provide data leaders a platform to share their stories and insights.   This weekly podcast looks to uncover the most exciting use cases in an organic and conversational format, professionally hosted and produced by Kyle Winterbottom.   If you've only just come across us, you'll be delighted to see hundreds of amazing episodes in our back catalog!   Check out all our episodes here: https://lnkd.in/eutSw8GT   Previous guests include: Hannah Davies Liz H. Chun Schiros, PhD Randy Bean Sarah Schlobohm Di Mayze Catherine Wilks Prachi Priya Graeme McDermott Kate Sargent Lynne Bailey and hundreds more!   If you'd like to join Kyle as a guest, reach out via our website!   #data #inspiration #podcast #leaders #teamorbition Orbition

Did you miss last week's episode? Gabriel S. CDO at Ocado Technology talks to us about the 150 ML Use Cases that fuel one of the most sophisticated fulfilment operations in the world 👉🏻The size of 6 football pitches 👉🏻With over 3000 Robots 👉🏻That travel at 4 meters per second 👉🏻Missing each other by 0.5cm Listen ⬇️

How do you architect the perfect operating model around organisational culture? In Episode 21, of Season 5 of Driven By Data: The Podcast Host Kyle Winterbottom was joined by Dan Robertson, Chief Data & Analytics Officer at Bupa Where they discuss the relationship between organisational culture, operating models, change and transformation and delivering value, which includes; 🎤How doing a business degree fuelled an interest in using data to support decision-making. 🎤Why starting his career as a programmer made him realise that he wanted a different path. 🎤Being the inaugural CDO for multiple, large, complex organisations. 🎤Why your operating model holds more weight than any solution. 🎤Why tuning in to organisational culture is the key to success for a transformational CDO. 🎤Getting an understand of company culture in the interview process. 🎤Why the amount of change required to embed that operating model defines the rockiness of the data strategy journey. 🎤Anchoring the implementation of change to the vision and purpose of the organisation. 🎤The importance of understanding ‘how things get done’. 🎤Why alignment on company purpose and vision impacts the ability to affect change. 🎤Tying incentives and objectives to that vision and purpose. 🎤Why your boss needs to ‘get it’ or be prepared to get it. 🎤Why the middle of the organisation will likely be the biggest cultural roadblock. 🎤Why federation is usually better for large organisations. 🎤The impact that maturity has on deciding on a centralised or federated model. 🎤Offering a service model to balance the pros and cons of operating models. 🎤Why the vision, purpose and north-star of the organisation is so important. 🎤The role of architecture of breaking down silos to unlock value. 🎤The common symptoms of what blockers to value creation are. 🎤The importance of Data Literacy both internally in D&A teams and in business teams. 🎤Why your team need to be able to explain the investment case to the exec that aligns to your purpose. 🎤The link between expectations and the average tenure of the CDO. 🎤The 3 key inflection points as a transformational CDO. 🎤Why you need to be careful about choosing which value-based use case you start with. 🎤Presenting different data strategy options to the exec. 🎤Deciding whether you’re aiming to be more data-driven or want competitive advantage. 🎤Understanding the size of the possible prizes. Listen to the full episode ⬇️

In Episode 20, of Season 5 Kyle Winterbottom was joined by Gabriel S. Chief Data Officer at Ocado Technology Where they discuss how data, AI and automation transformed Ocado and redefined the grocery sector, which includes; 🎤Utilising 3rd party technology and the realisation that it wasn’t good enough. 🎤Evolving from a grocery retailer into a global technology solutions provider. 🎤Building proprietary tech to solve challenges traditional systems couldn’t handle. 🎤Becoming market leaders for great customer experience. 🎤The journey to building and selling technology solutions to retailers all over the world. 🎤Why ML solutions became a necessity to provide a distinct customer proposition. 🎤The differences between operating an in-store versus online grocery retail business. 🎤Combining internal, external and P&L factors in prioritising use cases. 🎤Competing with an established model and changing the way people shop. 🎤The impressive fulfilment operations and the multiple iterations. 🎤Calculating the ROI of product optimisations. 🎤The relationship between innovation and company culture. 🎤The three main GenAI use cases. 🎤Having 150 ML use cases to enhance forecasting, reduce waste, and improve availability. 🎤The role of simulation in testing 500 years of operations in just one year. 🎤Why embedding data teams in product and engineering drives better outcomes. 🎤The importance of culture and long-term thinking in driving innovation. 🎤Leveraging GenAI to enhance workforce productivity and knowledge access. 🎤The potential for agent-based systems to transform internal operations and customer interactions. 🎤The benefits for retailers to partner with Ocado and leverage their technology. Listen ⬇️

📽️ The job of the Data Leader is to uncover specificity of what organisations want and expect from AI That's according to Dr Simon Jury, Chief Data Officer at Kingfisher plc on this week's episode! Listen ⬇️ #artificialintelligence #data

In Episode 19, of Season 5 of Driven By Data: The Podcast Kyle Winterbottom was joined by Dr Simon Jury, Chief Data Officer at Kingfisher plc Where they discuss the power of instinct and why you shouldn't always ignore it, which includes; 🎤Insights from decoupling ASDA from Walmart as VP of Data. 🎤Why building the right operating model for a group structure is critical. 🎤Balancing centralised vs. decentralised delivery across group and brand levels. 🎤The nuanced realities of a “single source of truth” across a group. 🎤Aligning all data decisions with value creation from the outset. 🎤When to trust your instinct over data and why that’s okay. 🎤Why the biggest challenges in D&A are ultimately people issues. 🎤The disparity in investment between technology and people. 🎤Why the skills that make a great data practitioner don’t always make a great data leader. 🎤Why most of a Data Leader’s time should be spent focused on their team. 🎤Building a high-performing D&A culture in a federated model. 🎤Creating frameworks for role exploration and skill development within D&A teams. 🎤The evolving role of analysts in a more data-literate future. 🎤The investment needed to truly unlock value from D&A at scale. 🎤Why it’s no longer acceptable for senior leaders to lack data fluency. 🎤Helping business leaders articulate what they really want from AI. 🎤Why living overseas sharpened the guest’s ability to translate data insights. 🎤Combining the science of data with the art of experience for better outcomes. 🎤Why being financially savvy is a key skill for any Data Leader. 🎤Why the most successful data products are popular first, and smart second. 🎤The potential of conversational interfaces to reshape how we interact with data. Listen ⬇️ #data #analytics #leadership

Stop telling me your funny, tell me a joke! Robert Kent with a brilliant analogy on this week's episode Where he talks about operating as a CDO on the exec, reporting to the CEO... Full episode ⬇️

In Episode 18, of Season 5 Kyle Winterbottom was joined by Robert Kent, Data & AI Leader at Greggs Where they discuss the learnings from being one of the first (maybe the first) CDOs in the UK to report to a CEO and be on the board of a UK Plc, which includes; 🎤Starting a career in IT over 30 years ago. 🎤Building D&A functions from scratch on multiple occasions. 🎤How the common thread has been executive sponsorship at the highest level. 🎤Anchoring data strategies to business strategies. 🎤Being part of a small group of CDOs that have reported to a CEO. 🎤Sitting on the board of a UK PLC that publicly declared data as core to its strategy. 🎤The business drivers that allowed data to have a seat at a board table. 🎤The learnings and experience of reporting to a CEO. 🎤Growing an appreciation of competing with priorities of other functions. 🎤The importance of empathy when sitting on the board. 🎤Balancing wearing a corporate hat and a data hat. 🎤Still needing to justify the existence of the data analytics function. 🎤A simple three-tier model to calculate value-creation. 🎤Accepting that there is a cost of doing business. 🎤Delivering tangible benefit in a cost-effective way without a large budget. 🎤Whether reporting lines and titles actually matter. 🎤The things that the CEO will be thinking about and asking. 🎤The things that can influence the position of the data executive in an organisation. 🎤The two key questions to ask your CEO that dictate proximity to them. 🎤Why CDOs have the power to choose which organisation is right for them. 🎤Why the data industry should be pushing on open doors. 🎤Why there is often a gap in expectations. 🎤The contributing factors to being seen as a cost centre. 🎤Why attributing value is easier for B2C businesses than B2B businesses. 🎤Why you’re doing something wrong if you can’t attribute value to data initiatives. 🎤Why translation will take you further than most other things. 🎤Why business people don’t care about our data analytics world. 🎤The material differences between having a seat at the table versus being a layer removed. 🎤Why any decision is made based on facts, fear, or faith. 🎤Where the future of data analytics teams lies. 🎤Why we’re not being picked on and other functions have it worse than us. Listen ⬇️

Data teams are building what companies ask for, not what they need Here's why ⬇️ Wise words on this weeks episode of Driven By Data: The Podcast When Steve Green, Chief Data & Analytics Officer at Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation – SMBC Group joined Kyle Winterbottom

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