Ep.52: Najam Baig, Nissan Motor Company

With a goal of leveraging the innovation that takes place in Silicon Valley by collaborating with them when a new product is taking shape, Nissan’s manager of data initiatives, Najam Baig joins us. He shares that company makes cars not AI so his job is to bring in experts. He’s an expert in understanding the tools that he has and employing the right tool at the right time for the job at hand. His intent is to be as pragmatic as possible. That said he’s focused on the internal data that he’s got at his finger tips like supply chain information and couples that with external data such as social listening to inform the enterprise.