Perspectives:
Challenges that organisations face in realising the value of data and AI, and ways to navigate and accelerate progress.
The Data & AI leader: Naturally an operator and technologist, but also the strategist and catalyst critical to delivering value?
In delivering value are from data and AI, technical and operational skills are essential, but are not enough.
Shaping the right strategy, executing a roadmap at pace and being the catalyst for business-wide adoption of data are just as critical to success.
Without applying sharp commercial acumen and the ability to influence and engage business stakeholders, the returns on data and AI investments are at risk.
Chief Data Officers - one of the loneliest roles?
CDOs need to protect an organisation's data assets whilst leading the transformation in how data and AI is used to improve decisions and actions.
Who is your sounding board or trusted advisor to challenge your thinking and guide you on the journey?
Becoming data-led? Data, and tech aren't the hardest parts
Whilst much focus and investment is placed on data and tech, these are rarely the key factors that prevents organisations scaling the value from data and AI.
The barrier of shifting mindset and culture are often cited and the key challenge to becoming data driven - yet what is the 'from-to' change that needs to happen.
Making data driven more than just an aspiration
Besides building a team of great talent, and focusing on use cases that deliver value, how do you ensure that your strategy and plan to scale the value from Data and AI will be successful.
Four guiding principles and the associated key questions provide a basis to ensure the vision and strategy can become reality.
Your Data and AI strategy:
Where to innovate, reinvent, cannibalise, or retain?
The vast breadth of opportunities, new technologies and changing business dynamics and stakeholder, can result in the strategy and plan for Data and AI being more like a boat at the mercy of changing tides and wind.
A rigorous review of what to ‘Innovate, Reinvent, Cannabilise, and Retain' can help ensure that the direction, balance of priorities and resulting business aligned roadmap meets current needs and accelerates future value delivery.
