February 21, 2023

S3 | Ep 16 | Delivering £500m in Value with Benny (Clive) Benford, Chief Data Officer, Formerly of JLR

54 minutes

In Episode 16 of Season 3, of Driven By Data: The Podcast, Kyle Winterbottom is joined by Benny (Clive) Benford, Chief Data Officer, Formerly of Jaguar LandRover (JLR), where they discuss the journey to realising £500m in commercial value through data and analytics, which includes;

The journey of building a Data & Analytics function at JLR
How they unlocked and realised £500m worth of commercial benefit and value
How to ensure the data team is consistently delivering value
The importance of having a process of engagement
How to prioritise the workload and the value the potential return of each project
How to allocate/attribute value
The mission statement of creating £1m of value per team member, per year
Transforming decision-making across an entire enterprise
Why it’s important for senior data leadership needs to wait for the right career opportunity
Why the conditions are so important to success
Why most business users/leaders don’t view data as something that can provide “value”
Making the business case for large-scale investment
Why you need to agree on the value before you commit to any project
The impact of the hype in Data & Analytics
Why there are so many instances where organisations are tech-first and value-last
Who’s to blame for a lack of ROI
Why it’s so important to have a range of skills and not just data/technical skills
Why over 1/3 of the team didn’t have a technical skillset
Why everyone underestimates the level of change required to deliver value
The importance of a communication strategy and how to utilise it well
How they quantified that if they could deliver all projects, there would be £1.2b of value
The importance of your people knowing why they’re doing the work
How they built an apprenticeship programme of 700 people (15-17% of all data apprentices in UK)
Where the responsibility of the data team ends
Why it’s better to start without the big infrastructure project
Why they received funding to invest in people but had the technology budget cut

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February 21, 2023

S3 | Ep 16 | Delivering £500m in Value with Benny (Clive) Benford, Chief Data Officer, Formerly of JLR

54 minutes

The journey of building a Data & Analytics function at JLR
How they unlocked and realised £500m worth of commercial benefit and value
How to ensure the data team is consistently delivering value
The importance of having a process of engagement
How to prioritise the workload and the value the potential return of each project
How to allocate/attribute value
The mission statement of creating £1m of value per team member, per year
Transforming decision-making across an entire enterprise
Why it’s important for senior data leadership needs to wait for the right career opportunity
Why the conditions are so important to success
Why most business users/leaders don’t view data as something that can provide “value”
Making the business case for large-scale investment
Why you need to agree on the value before you commit to any project
The impact of the hype in Data & Analytics
Why there are so many instances where organisations are tech-first and value-last
Who’s to blame for a lack of ROI
Why it’s so important to have a range of skills and not just data/technical skills
Why over 1/3 of the team didn’t have a technical skillset
Why everyone underestimates the level of change required to deliver value
The importance of a communication strategy and how to utilise it well
How they quantified that if they could deliver all projects, there would be £1.2b of value
The importance of your people knowing why they’re doing the work
How they built an apprenticeship programme of 700 people (15-17% of all data apprentices in UK)
Where the responsibility of the data team ends
Why it’s better to start without the big infrastructure project
Why they received funding to invest in people but had the technology budget cut