S3 | Ep 33 | Design Thinking: Creating Value-Driven Data Products & Solutions with Micheline Casey, CDAO at Siemens Energy
In Episode 33 of Season 3, of Driven by Data: The Podcast, Kyle Winterbottom is joined by Micheline Casey, Chief Data & Analytics Officer at Siemens Energy, where they discuss how to create value-driven data products using design-thinking, which includes;
- Being the first CDO at the Federal Reserve
- Working in Senior Data Leadership at household names such as Ford, Maersk and now Siemens Energy
- The spin-off of Siemens Energy from Siemens and the challenges they’re tackling
- How there are close to a billion people worldwide who are under-served or don’t have energy
- How Data/AI is creating commercial value to the energy sector
- The sustainable energy transition movement
- The concept of design-thinking
- How to use design thinking to create tangible business value
- How to apply design thinking to create data products and artificial intelligence solutions
- Why it allows us to speak the right language to business stakeholders
- Why it allows you to get value iteratively and quickly
- Some real-life case studies in creating innovative data products that create business value
- The importance of slowing down to speed up
- Connecting design thinking to Data Strategy
- How design-thinking fits into the organisational design conversation
- Economic modelling for valuation - hard benefits and soft benefits
- The importance of designing for component reusability to allocate value