In Episode 5 of Driven by Data: The Podcast, Kyle Winterbottom is joined by (Best Selling Author) John Thompson, Global Head of Advanced Analytics & Artificial Intelligence at CSL Behring, where they discuss the competitive advantage that businesses who have adopted Data & Analytics have and how they are leaving their competitors behind.

Having worked on both sides of the pond, and wrote two best selling books, John articulates how to get the most of Data & Analytics within your organisation, which includes:

• The realistic cost/investment required to get it right, first time
• The timescales to see genuine business value
• How to manage stakeholders to ensure action is taken
• Why analytics professionals are fundamentally different
• How to manage high-performance analytics teams/people
• Ways to test if you're organisation is ready to adopt
• Why it's difficult to move analytical models and applications from development into production
• Whether speed of adoption determines success
• If there is such thing as first mover advantage
• Why he decided to write his books

If you're interested in purchasing John's books then please use these links:

• Building Analytics Teams - https://www.amazon.com/Building-Analytics-Teams-intelligence-improvement/dp/1800203160/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_product_top?ie=UTF8
• Analytics: How to win with Intelligence – https://www.amazon.com/Analytics-How-Intelligence-John-Thompson/dp/1634622375/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=