Expert Talks with Maavrus | Analytics, AI and Transformation

In conversation with Nitin Srivastava, Data and Analytics Leader at Advanced Auto Parts | Expert Talks with Maavrus - EP 09

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Today is Episode 9 of the Interview series on Expert-Talks, with Leaders in the Analytics, AI and Transformation space.  For this episode, our CEO Mahadevann Iyerr (Mahaa) is in conversation with Nitin Srivastava, Data and Analytics Leader at Advanced Auto Parts.  Prior to Advanced Auto Parts, Nitin has had a wonderful career at UnitedHealth, Wells Fargo and Mahindra Satyam. 

 

We are sure listeners will greatly learn from Nitin’s practical examples of business value creation through the application of analytics. We are listing below, a few key points from the interview :

 

  • Nitin emphasizes the importance of understanding the business problem clearly before working on any analytics projects. Nitin has worked with various companies operating in different industries, and he explains that each industry has its nuances, which is essential to understand to build capabilities effectively. He highlights the need to be flexible and adaptable to the culture and level of analytics maturity in each company to be successful as an analytics leader.
  • With regard to the future of work and how AI can play a role in it, he believes that AI will play a major role in connecting developers with companies and clients. AI-powered suggestions could connect the right people across the globe. Nitin sees AI playing a significant role in building industry-specific domain expertise, such as a large language model in the retail industry that is specific to the auto parts sub-domain. Nitin believes that AI will play a major role in every walk of life and not just for data and analytics folks. He notes that embedded AI will be playing a vital role in every person's life.
  • He acknowledges concerns about AI taking away jobs but points out that new jobs have been created in the past, such as during the introduction of the steam engine and calculators. Nitin believes that AI will create new job opportunities, and people need to adapt to these changes by acquiring new skills. Prompt engineering is a new skill that Nitin believes will be crucial in the future, as it is necessary to interact effectively with AI. He explains how Microsoft 365's Copilot can create a PowerPoint presentation by extracting information from Word documents and voice prompts. Another example is GitHub Copilot and its potential to increase productivity and reduce the time to market.
  • To have a successful career in AI, analytics, and transformation, budding data analysts will need to, firstly, have a passion for the job, secondly, they will need to develop business acumen to understand the business side of it and thirdly, they need to have a good understanding of algorithms and where to use them, which includes supervised and unsupervised learning techniques

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