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

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