S3 | Ep 11 | The Steps to Fast and Sustainable Commercial Impact with Data & AI with Cornelia Schaurecker, Global Group Director AI & Big Data at Vodafone
In Episode 11 of Season 3, of Driven By Data: The Podcast, Kyle Winterbottom is joined by Cornelia Schaurecker, Global Group Director AI & Big Data at Vodafone, where they discuss how to create commercial impact quickly and sustainably with Data and AI, which includes;
- Why it's all about people
- The benefits of reporting to a commercial leader
- How they've delivered several hundred data-driven solutions/use cases
- The driver to build once and deploy to many
- The starting point to ensure you’re creating commercial impact
- Why it’s imperative not to boil the ocean and how to prioritise to pick the right bets
- The importance of answering the right questions
- Why a good use case is one that scales
- The importance of time to market, speed and scale
- The tools and tech they’ve built to address the scale and speed challenges
- Why you need more than just tech/tool to create scalable solutions
- The role of automation in scale
- How to use measurements to build transparency
- The steps taken in building a high-performance team
- Why the quality of your data assets plays a role in attracting talent
- Why “social good” helps to attract talent
- How to ensure that your data team’s work is visible, valuable and impactful
- How they created a menu by building a use-case library with all of their data assets
- Their "AI Everywhere" Strategy
- Their journey to 1:1 personalisation
- Creating an AI Ethics policy
- The 3 components of driving a data culture