Driven by Data: The Podcast

S3 | Ep 46 | Engaging Business Leadership; The Perfect Conditions for a Data Executive with Ben Steele, Head of Data & Analytics at BMS Group


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In Episode 46 of Season 3, of Driven by Data: The Podcast, Kyle Winterbottom is joined by, Ben Steele, Head of Data & Analytics at BMS Group where they discuss how to successfully engage your business leaders and what constitutes the perfect conditions for a Data Executive, which includes;

  • Being the first data leader through the door
  • Owning and implementing the first data strategy in an organisation
  • Operating in low data maturity environments
  • Generating between £50-100m in revenue through Data & Analytics
  • Why it isn’t the job of a data team to define what value means for a business
  • Why you can’t distil value down to one single meaning or metric
  • Data use cases versus business use cases
  • The importance of being comfortable having purely business conversations
  • Why collaboration is the single biggest superpower of a Data & Analytics team
  • What you should expect to be measured by as a Data Leader
  • What business leaders, boards, shareholders, etc, view as “value”
  • The importance of getting the balance of skills in a team correct
  • Working effectively with other business leaders/peers
  • How to successfully engage a business leadership team
  • The importance of Data Literacy to the success of the CDO
  • The perfect conditions for success in a CDO role
  • Why talking about attribution of revenue is the wrong question
  • Why the notion of a Data Strategy will hopefully become redundant

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