In this podcast, Pascal Marmier sat with Vishal Kumar to discuss challenges, opportunities, and nuances in running an innovation hub within regulated corporate culture settings and shared some best practices in promoting data driven innovation.

Timeline:

0:29 Pascal's journey.

6:12 Quitting law and getting into digital analytics.

10:44 Defining Head Analytics Catalyst.

13:46 Putting up an Analytics Catalyst team.

18:43 Steps to create a data lab.

22:02 Securing executive sponsorship.

25:45 Differences in creating lab in Europe in comparison to the USA.

29:43 Challenges in setting up a digital analytics catalyst.

32:27 Ideal team members to have in a digital analytics catalyst team.

35:14 Company culture interfering with lab innovation.

38:00 Lab innovation determining the company's future.

42:19 Important KPIs for setting up a lab.

46:55 Prophesy on the insurance company.

51:15 What can insurance do to secure themselves?

54:48 Insurance dealing with changing risk profiles.

59:26 Pascal's favorite read.

1:00:56 Closing remarks.

Podcast link:

https://futureofdata.org/pascal-marmier-pmarmier-swissre-discuss-running-data-driven-innovation-catalyst/

About Pascal Marmier:

After many years helping to build the swissnex network in Boston and in China, I recently joined Swiss Re in Boston to help the Digital Analytics Catalyst team identify and develop novel ideas/tech into a sustainable business. As part of the digital transformation of the insurance industry, our team in Boston and London is engaging with startups and academia in various fields of technology such as digital health, IoT, AI. We are working with the teams at Swiss Re to provide business solutions based on the transformative power of data innovation.

Pascal's Favorite Read:

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind http://amzn.to/2yHvYGV

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