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Episode 46

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19th Sep 2023

S3 | Ep 46 | Engaging Business Leadership; The Perfect Conditions for a Data Executive with Ben Steele, Head of Data & Analytics at BMS Group

In Episode 46 of Season 3, of Driven by Data: The Podcast, Kyle Winterbottom is joined by, Ben Steele, Head of Data & Analytics at BMS Group where they discuss how to successfully engage your business leaders and what constitutes the perfect conditions for a Data Executive, which includes;

  • Being the first data leader through the door
  • Owning and implementing the first data strategy in an organisation
  • Operating in low data maturity environments
  • Generating between £50-100m in revenue through Data & Analytics
  • Why it isn’t the job of a data team to define what value means for a business
  • Why you can’t distil value down to one single meaning or metric
  • Data use cases versus business use cases
  • The importance of being comfortable having purely business conversations
  • Why collaboration is the single biggest superpower of a Data & Analytics team
  • What you should expect to be measured by as a Data Leader
  • What business leaders, boards, shareholders, etc, view as “value”
  • The importance of getting the balance of skills in a team correct
  • Working effectively with other business leaders/peers
  • How to successfully engage a business leadership team
  • The importance of Data Literacy to the success of the CDO
  • The perfect conditions for success in a CDO role
  • Why talking about attribution of revenue is the wrong question
  • Why the notion of a Data Strategy will hopefully become redundant
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About the Podcast

Driven by Data: The Podcast
Designed for Data Enthusiasts to hear from the Data & Analytics industry's thought leaders
Orbition Group is delighted to bring you this podcast series, which is designed for Data Enthusiasts, to hear from some of the most high-profile Data, Analytics and AI thought leaders from around the globe.

Each episode will detail the guests journey to the top while bringing unique insights, drawn from first-hand experience on the industry’s most trending topics.

This podcast was created as a way for our industry's most respected leadership figures from across the world to give back to the Data & Analytics community, by sharing; knowledge, experiences and ideas, to inspire, innovate and provide real-life use cases on the industries most pressing topics/challenges.

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Kyle Winterbottom

Founder of Orbition Group, a Search and Talent Solutions business that operates exclusively within the world of Data, Analytics & AI.

I am hugely passionate about enabling organisations to drive decisions and obtain value from the use of Data, Analytics & Artificial Intelligence.

As such, I believe it is imperative that as a community, we share; knowledge, ideas, real-life use cases and inspiration to collectively give back to our industry.

Given my fortunate position of speaking with hundreds, if not thousands of leadership figures within the global Data & Analytics community each year , I feel it is my duty to share the successes, failures, challenges and opportunities.

Therefore, I have positioned Orbition Group to be a facilitator of that knowledge sharing, through these podcasts, events we host and public speaking.