In Episode 3 of Season 3, of Driven By Data: The Podcast our CEO Kyle Winterbottom is joined by Liz Henderson, Executive Advisor (and NED) at Capgemini, where they discuss how data is ultimately a people sport, which includes;

• How a bad experience shaped her appreciation of change management
• Why the resistance to change occurs
• Why you’ve got to get the key influencers in a business to drive the change
• How to identify and engage those key influencers
• The ‘top down’ and ‘bottom-up’ questions to ask
• Why you shouldn’t highlight top down business objectives
• Why most data strategies are too high-level and don’t include people or actions
• Why there’s minimal investment into change management
• The trend of siloed data strategies and the associated risks
• How to make data relatable to people on an individual level
• Why data is just a hype train
• How to deliver value without support from senior leadership
• Why you shouldn’t jump in feet first
• The 5 “Why’s” of Data
• How to benchmark an organisations data-driven status
• Why the non-exec table needs to be convinced of data
• Why being challenged demonstrates a data-literate organisation
• The term “data” switches people off
• How 90% of organisations are investing in data, but 90% claim their biggest challenge is a people/cultural one
• Why data will be a P&L asset in the future