In Episode 50, of Season 3, of Driven by Data: The Podcast, Kyle Winterbottom is joined by Joseph George, CEO at Dufrain, where they discuss the seven sins of data transformation, which includes;

• The differences between being an employee in a big corporate to running a business
• The realities of the Data Science hype cycle in 2017/18
• Why the good work is only done in pockets and silos
• Research that suggests that only 27% of organisations are ready to achieve benefits from AI
• Why they commissioned their ‘State of Data’ Report and some of the key findings
• Why most organisations believe they’re significantly more data mature than they actually are
• Why data is important but not urgent
• How most organisations can’t tie their D&A work to any increase in profit /revenue
• The reality of how organisations are still using data within an organisation
• How organisations are suffering from the “streetlight effect”
• Why most data and analytics projects still don’t deliver the desired benefits
• How most of the blockers are non-technical
• The seven sins of data transformation
• Why data is an afterthought in most transformation programmes
• The lack of good programme/project management on most data and analytics initiatives
• The importance of understanding what success and ‘completed’ is for different stakeholders
• Why many agile projects aren’t actually agile
• The three lenses of collaboration and why the lack of it negatively impacts many D&A projects
• Why everyone needs to think and act commercially and speak in business language
• Why it all ties back to revenue
• Why we all have to look in the mirror
• The importance of being able to articulate the benefit of any data initiative
• Why the CIO is being chosen over the CDO for having responsibility for AI

You can find The State of Data Report here; https://www.dufrain.co.uk/