In Episode 27, of Season 5 of Driven by Data: The Podcast, Kyle Winterbottom was joined by Indhira Mani, Chief Data Officer at RSA, where they discuss the disconnect that often exists between strategy and execution, and what it takes to actually deliver, which includes;

Transforming from legacy to modernisation and then innovation.
Shaping data as a transformation to move data to the point of decision.
Designing a strategy that works in reality to create impact.
Failing fast is the best way to execute a strategy.
Why building trust through execution will make or break your strategy.
Understanding what you can deliver versus what your business wants.
Why you should treat your data activity as a 2-way product framework.
Why ‘why comes first’.
Making practical decisions around organisational readiness.
Measuring organisational readiness.
The importance of flexibility, practicality and pragmatism.
Why you need Executive Commitment and why sponsorship isn’t enough.
Testing for that commitment.
Why you need clarity of tangible outcomes against goals and objectives.
Why we’re not in the business of building lakes and warehouses.
Building reusable and scalable products.
Identifying what capabilities and skills you need to deliver.
Inheriting a team of 20 and growing it to 120.
The relationship between operating model and successful transformation.
The importance of incorporating change iteratively.
Why you shouldn’t aim to change but to win hearts and minds.
Why it’s never about ‘what’ but always about ‘why’ and ‘how’.
The importance of building curiosity.
The 4 transition states of transformation.
Trebling the return on investment in the short term and aiming for 10x over the long-term.

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