Data & AI Culture Podcast

Data & AI Culture Podcast

By Carsten Bange – BARCBusinessTechnologyManagement
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Data & AI Culture Podcast episodes

  • Business Value First: How Swiss Post Leads AI Without Chasing Trends
    with Olya Nicolaeva, Swiss Post
    What does a business-first approach to data and AI look like inside Swiss Post? Olya Nikolaeva shares her perspective on platforms, collaboration and organizational change.
    Topics include:
    - Starting with business problems and use cases before selecting technologies or designing a platform roadmap.
    - Connecting central platform teams, embedded business IT and business departments through shared projects.
    - Using AI to bridge implementation skill gaps while placing greater emphasis on conceptual thinking, clear requirements and code reviews.
    - Adapting strategies and project teams to faster development cycles, including Olya’s push for pilots that demonstrate initial value within two to four weeks.
    - Rethinking separate data and AI roles, formal job definitions and career paths.
    - Building context for machines and humans across different enterprise systems, and deciding what to connect or harmonize first.
    Olya’s closing priorities: focus on business value, collaborate across organizational boundaries and support people through changing roles.
    34 min
  • Warum KI-generierte Dashboards ohne Datenqualität und Governance scheitern – mit Christoph Hein, Intito

    Wie skaliert KI im Data-&-Analytics-Umfeld, ohne dass eine Flut an Dashboards Governance und Datenqualität aushebeln? Carsten Bange spricht mit Christoph Hein (Intito) über die Bausteine skalierbarer KI: vertrauenswürdige Daten, das passende LLM, einen AI Semantic Layer mit Guardrails und Geschäftskontext sowie Tokeneffizienz. Dazu: warum Berechnungen immer in die Datenbank gehören und warum Dashboards noch immer nicht entgültig tot sind.

    Christoph Hein auf LinkedIn: https://tinyurl.com/3x89a543

    Carsten Bange auf LinkedIn: https://tinyurl.com/37sdzd2s
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    36 min
  • Technologie ist einfach. Transformation nicht. - mit Nina Indina, ETH Zürich

    Warum braucht Transformation deutlich mehr, als nur Technologiefragen zu lösen? Nina Indina leitet an der ETH Zürich das Programm Digitaler Zwilling für Infrastruktur und Nachhaltigkeit. Mit Carsten Bange spricht sie darüber, wie der Einstieg in Transformationsprozesse gelingt, welche Rolle Digital Transformation Leads spielen, wie Narrative Change die Veränderung trägt und warum Dialogformate klassische Schulungen ersetzen sollten.

    Nina Indina auf LinkedIn: https://tinyurl.com/5aedkcud

    Carsten Bange auf LinkedIn: https://tinyurl.com/37sdzd2s
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    38 min
  • Data Products & Data Contracts in the AI age: Ownership, Standards, Semantics – with Simon Harrer, Entropy Data

    Data catalogs can document data, but they rarely create true ownership. In this episode, Carsten Bange and Simon Harrer explain how machine-readable data contracts add verifiable guarantees, clear responsibilities, and business semantics to data products. They also explore why marketplaces and open standards such as ODCS and ODPS are becoming critical foundations for trustworthy AI agents and metadata sovereignty.

    Simon Harrer on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/simonharrer/

    Carsten Bange on LinkedIn: https://tinyurl.com/37sdzd2s
    BARC on LinkedIn: https://tinyurl.com/4j96bfnf
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    Entropy Data: www.entropy-data.com

    Data Contracts: www.datacontract.com
    Data Contract CLI: https://github.com/datacontract/datacontract-cli
    Data Contract Editor: https://github.com/datacontract/datacontract-editor
    Open Data Contract Standard: https://bitol-io.github.io/open-data-contract-standard
    Open Data Product Standard: https://bitol-io.github.io/open-data-product-standard
    Apache Ossie: https://ossie.apache.org/

    38 min
  • Erst krabbeln, dann fliegen: Wie KI im Finanzbereich erfolgreich abhebt – mit Dirk Böckmann, virtivity

    Warum sind CFO-Organisationen bei KI oft zu zögerlich? Und wie kommt man pragmatisch zu messbarem Nutzen? Dirk Böckmann zeigt, warum Predictive Analytics ein idealer Einstieg ist, warum „Datenqualität“ use-case-basiert bewertet werden sollte und wie Data Products/Data Mesh Verantwortung klären. Außerdem: Agentic AI mit Crawl–Walk–Run–Fly und Quick Wins in Abweichungsanalyse & Anomalieerkennung.

    Dirk Böckmann auf LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dirk-boeckmann/

    Carsten Bange auf LinkedIn: https://tinyurl.com/37sdzd2s
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    36 min
  • Why AI in CPM Still Fails Without Trusted Data – with Kelley Lynn Kassa, BARC

    AI in Corporate Performance Management (CPM) promises efficiency and better forecasting – but only if the data foundation is trustworthy. In this episode, senior analyst Kelley Lynn Kassa explains why data quality and trust are the biggest blockers, where agentic AI already delivers wins, and how teams should evaluate bolt‑on vs. AI‑native CPM vendors.

    Kelley Kassa on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kelleykassa/

    Carsten Bange on LinkedIn: https://tinyurl.com/37sdzd2s
    BARC on LinkedIn: https://tinyurl.com/4j96bfnf
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    31 min
  • Wie Data Science und AI den Versandhandel messbar profitabler machen – mit Sascha Netuschil, Bonprix

    Wie bleibt Data Science im E‑Commerce relevant, obwohl Generative AI so viel Aufmerksamkeit bekommt? Carsten Bange spricht mit Sascha Netuschil (bonprix) über Forecasting, Attribution & Marketing‑Mix‑Modellierung – und darüber, wie AI‑generierte Produktbilder wirklich produktkorrekt werden. Dazu: Kosten/Iterationen, neue Rollen & Governance sowie der realistische Stand von agentic Workflows.

    Sascha Netuschil on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sascha-netuschil/

    Carsten Bange on LinkedIn: https://tinyurl.com/37sdzd2s
    BARC on LinkedIn: https://tinyurl.com/4j96bfnf
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    37 min
  • Wie KI-Agenten Prozesse in Finance und Logistik revolutionieren – mit Björn Stauss, Board

    KI-Agenten bringen Automatisierung in Finance-, Logistik- und Supply-Chain-Prozesse: von Handlungsempfehlungen aus Analysen über automatische Planungsvorschläge bis zu schnelleren Forecasts. In dieser Episode diskutieren Carsten Bange und Björn Stauss (Board), wie Unternehmen geeignete Prozesse identifizieren, warum Geschwindigkeit oft wichtiger ist als das letzte Prozent Genauigkeit und welche Rolle Governance, Compliance und Datenqualität spielen.

    Björn Stauss on LinkedIn: https://tinyurl.com/4a8ht3u9

    Carsten Bange on LinkedIn: https://tinyurl.com/37sdzd2s
    BARC on LinkedIn: https://tinyurl.com/4j96bfnf
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    35 min
  • State of the Data & Analytics Market – Q3-2026

    AI agents are moving into production. And that’s where things get messy. In this Q3 2026 update, Shawn Rogers and Carsten Bange unpack what changes when agents get real access: governance, sovereignty, cost, and the knock-on effects for BI and analytics. They ground the discussion in what teams are experiencing across major AI platforms like OpenAI and Anthropic, and why infrastructure dependence is becoming part of the governance conversation.

    They also connect the dots to what the market is signaling. From Snowflake and Databricks to AWS, and across the AI ecosystem with OpenAI, Anthropic, Stripe, and OpenRouter.

    Other companies discussed: DuckDB, Natoma, Nvidia, Salesforce, Domo, Progress, Golden Analytics, Gravity.

    Get in touch with us!

    Carsten Bange: https://barc.com/team/dr-carsten-bange/
    Shawn Rogers: https://barc.com/team/shawn-rogers/

    BARC on LinkedIn: https://tinyurl.com/4j96bfnf

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    33 min
  • Inside Boehringer Ingelheim’s Digital Supply Chain Twin – Christian Petri, Boehringer Ingelheim

    How do you build a digital supply-chain twin that actually improves decisions? Christian Petri shares how Boehringer Ingelheim created a web-based twin for end-to-end transparency plus simulation/optimization of inventory parameters like safety stocks and replenishment. We cover data integration, agile cross-functional delivery, trust via data lineage, and how ML/LLMs support usability.

    Dr. Christian Petri on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-christian-petri/

    Carsten Bange on LinkedIn: https://tinyurl.com/37sdzd2s
    BARC on LinkedIn: https://tinyurl.com/4j96bfnf
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    38 min

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