OUR APPROACH

Data and AI deliver real value when seamlessly embedded into decisions and actions - enhancing business experience and expertise.

Business led, outcome driven - surfacing the key business opportunities to deploy data and AI to improve business performance.
Adaptive - flexing the focus and approach to align to your context, your priorities and opportunities.
Right solution to the right problem - apply extensive experience to ensure the data and AI approaches align to your business context and goals.
Scalable capability as the core - collaboratively building your capabilities and improving ways of working to embed and sustain the value from Data & AI.

Amid the hype and jargon of Data & AI, we bring clarity and focus - simplifying complexity and delivering tangible impact.

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ABOUT US

“Vision without action is hallucination"

Thomas Edison.

Our passion is helping businesses solve the challenges that prevent the strategic potential of Data & AI from being realised.

We bring 20+ years of expertise of delivering Data & AI strategies for leading international retail, consumer focused and public sector organisations,.

Through a unique combination of advanced analytics 'know-how' with a commercial mindset, working up to Board level of ASX top 10 organisations, we have:

Ensured that the Data and AI Strategy is business-led and grounded in the Corporate Goals.
Progressed the key opportunities to deliver impact, whilst building the capabilities required to scale and sustain.
Enabled business users to understand and prove how 'Data and AI' can make them more successful.
Guided on the appropriate sequencing and timing of investments in technology and people, - ensuring they are business need/ outcome led - not vendor or solution led.
In complex, multi-divisional organisations, built cross-BU collaboration and closed the engagement chasm between well-meaning Data & AI teams, business users and IT teams.
Built high performing fit-for-purpose Data and Analytics talent and ways of working.

Our goal is to ensure that business led Data & AI aspirations and plans translate to the delivery of value and 'right-sized' capability development.

OUR TEAM

ALAN LOWTHORPE

Founder and Principal

With over two decades of analytics experience across UK, South America and Australia, I have led and delivered the data and AI strategy across the Wesfarmers Group (GM of Advanced Analytics Centre), Falabella (led analytics for South American retailer and financial services group), Quantium/ Woolworths (Lead for Woolworths relationship), Director of Consulting servicing Waitrose, Target USA, SportingBet.

Through translating the potential of data assets into business use-cases, closing the engagement ‘chasm’ between business and analytics teams, and developing the capabilities to effectively scale the use and adoption of data and AI, I help transform strategic data aspirations into reality.

As required, we call upon domain expertise from the former Wesfarmers Advanced Analytics Centre, covering data engineering, data science, insight activation and data governance.

SUSANNE SCHANTZ

Founder and Principal

Susanne is a coach and consultant. She has spent a career helping companies change the way they manage and adapt to the incredible pace of digital & data transformation.

From big corporates to SMEs and startups across 3 continents, she has the privilege of stewarding many firms through strategic changes to the way they do business.

Her focus is never just on the tech, but on the people and culture that wrap around it; the final frontier of transformation.

Our
DEI Pledge

We believe in Diversity, Equality & Inclusivity

Adaptive Data actively seeks to foster a culture which values and celebrates diversity in all its forms. We promote equal opportunity for all candidates and employees, and will actively work to eliminate any form of discrimination or bias.