S3 | Ep 32 | From Strategy to Execution with Diane Berry, Chief Data & Analytics Officer at Phoenix Group

In Episode 32 of Season 3, of Driven by Data: The Podcast, Kyle Winterbottom is joined by Diane Berry, Chief Data & Analytics Officer at Phoenix Group, where they discuss the journey from devising a data strategy to executing that strategy, which includes;

• The importance of providing interim value while on your strategic journey
• Why to do anything at scale you’ll need to have a multi-year strategy
• Why building relationships with key stakeholders/business leaders is essential for success
• The importance of validating your problem statement
• Why you need to develop a “front door process”
• The challenge of not being a P&L centre
• Why you need to tie the value of your work to key business projects
• Why it’s critical to align your data team to the business teams they’re serving
• Why your team need autonomy
• Why the Data Leader shouldn’t own all the relationships with the business
• The benefits of having a multi-disciplinary team
• Being able to attract career changers
• How to communicate your success and why you need to market yourself
• Knowing if you’ve got the buy-in of the business
• Measuring how you’re tracking against your data strategy
• Why you should never lose sight of the long-term
• The likely traps that can derail your data strategy
• The importance of your data teams ‘store front’
• The relationship between culture and buy-in