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
