S3 | Ep 33 | Design Thinking: Creating Value-Driven Data Products & Solutions with Micheline Casey, CDAO at Siemens Energy

In Episode 33 of Season 3, of Driven by Data: The Podcast, Kyle Winterbottom is joined by Micheline Casey, Chief Data & Analytics Officer at Siemens Energy, where they discuss how to create value-driven data products using design-thinking, which includes;

• Being the first CDO at the Federal Reserve
• Working in Senior Data Leadership at household names such as Ford, Maersk and now Siemens Energy
• The spin-off of Siemens Energy from Siemens and the challenges they’re tackling
• How there are close to a billion people worldwide who are under-served or don’t have energy
• How Data/AI is creating commercial value to the energy sector
• The sustainable energy transition movement
• The concept of design-thinking
• How to use design thinking to create tangible business value
• How to apply design thinking to create data products and artificial intelligence solutions
• Why it allows us to speak the right language to business stakeholders
• Why it allows you to get value iteratively and quickly
• Some real-life case studies in creating innovative data products that create business value
• The importance of slowing down to speed up
• Connecting design thinking to Data Strategy
• How design-thinking fits into the organisational design conversation
• Economic modelling for valuation - hard benefits and soft benefits
• The importance of designing for component reusability to allocate value