Driven by Data: The Podcast

Ep 28 | Customer-Centric or Data-Driven with Tom Spencer, Head of Customer Data Science at Aviva


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In Episode 28 of Driven by Data: The Podcast, Kyle Winterbottom is joined by Tom Spencer, Head of Customer Data Science at Aviva (and Data IQ 100 No.9) where they discuss the relationship between customer-centric and data-driven, which includes:

  • His experience of working in different cultures in Asia
  • Why he thinks he was listed at Number 9 in the Data IQ 100 2021
  • Why your insights are only as good as the change you can drive
  • Why he focuses on shifting from "Reactive Servants" to "Proactive Partners"
  • How he lives by the quote; "You tell us what you want and we’ll tell you what you need”
  • The importance of understanding the real question
  • Why there is still a place for instinct despite being data-driven
  • Why customer-centric and data-driven aren’t mutually exclusive
  • Why being truly customer-centric only works if it’s ingrained into the company culture
  • The danger of conflating customer-centric with doing anything for the customer
  • Why it’s equally important to identify the customers you don’t want as it is understanding who your best customers are
  • The importance of hiring in the quest to be customer-centric  
  • The 3 phases by which to measure the success of the customer-centric approach  
  • Why measuring the impact your work has on your customers is better than attempting to measure ROI  
  • The difference between a customer-centric organisation versus a product/service-centric organisation
  • The role of the board in being customer-centric
  • Why connecting what’s important to the customers to what’s important to the stakeholders is critical

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