The Company Road Podcast E30 Dr. Marco Motta - Drama from data: Where stats, insight and influence converge
“In fact, there’s nothing normal. Everything is what we make of it to a certain extent.”
Dr. Marco Motta
In this episode, you’ll hear about:
Data storytelling: How to present data in a means to create shared understanding across an organisation and use narrative techniques to make it personable, digestible and immersive
Mitigating data literacy: Establishing an evidence-driven culture by bridging the data literacy gap in an organisation and increasing the capacity for informed decision-making
The responsibility of data stewardship: Delegating roles for data management and ensuring privacy, confidentiality and integrity is maintained when utilising data
Data visualisation: Why the visualisation of data can completely change how it’s received & top dataviz strategies for ensuring it achieves the purpose you’re after
The power of philosophy and critical thinking: Why its valuable to deploy philosophical techniques into consulting and data analysis to ensure decisions are rooted and strategically considered
Key Links
Heidegger: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/heidegger/
Phenomenology: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/phenomenology/
Arnold Hauser: https://arthistorians.info/hausera/
Sapiens book: https://www.amazon.com.au/Sapiens-Humankind-Yuval-Noah-Harari/
Transport of Main Roads: https://www.tmr.qld.gov.au/
Hamlet’s Mill: https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/1439
Translink: https://translink.com.au/
About our guest
Dr Marco Motta (https://www.linkedin.com/in/mottamarco01) is the Managing Director of Motta Consulting, a boutique organisation that specialises in data analysis and visualisation.
He has a strong track-record transforming the performance reporting culture of large organisations, using data storytelling to craft business stories that break silos and support good decisions. He marries this with a doctorate in philosophy from the University of Queensland and uses his background in critical thinking to help organisations and clients identify, define, break-down and solve complex business challenges.
About our host
Our host, Chris Hudson (https://www.linkedin.com/in/chris-hudson-7464254/), is a Teacher, Experience Designer and Founder of business transformation coaching & consultancy Company Road (www.companyroad.co)
Chris considers himself incredibly fortunate to have worked with some of the world’s most ambitious and successful companies, including Google, Mercedes-Benz, Accenture (Fjord) and Dulux, to name a small few. He continues to teach with Academy Xi in Innovation, CX, Product Management, Design Thinking and Service Design and mentors many business leaders internationally.
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