Driven by Data: The Podcast S3 | Ep 50 | The Seven Sins of Data Transformation with Joseph George, CEO of Dufrain
Oct 17, 2023
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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/