Episode 5

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6th Dec 2022

S3 | Ep 5 | Why Data Literacy Won’t be the Cornerstone to Success with Malcolm Hawker, Head of Data Strategy at Profisee

In Episode 5 of Season 3, of Driven By Data: The Podcast, Kyle Winterbottom is joined by Malcolm Hawker, Head of Data Strategy at Profisee, where they discuss why Data Literacy isn't the key to success, which includes;

  • The benefits of starting his career in Product
  • His time at Gartner; the 1500+ conversations he had with CDO’s and why he left
  • Why there are so few successful use cases of Data & Analytics initiatives
  • Why so few Data Leaders do what they’d advise others to do
  • Why we talk a good game about failing fast but no organisation incentivises that to happen
  • Why it’s up to the Data Leader to instigate the required change required to improve the current dysfunction
  • Why most CDO’s are walking into Lions dens
  • How it is absolutely possible to quantify the commercial benefit of our data initiatives despite some claiming it’s not
  • How models can help us to quantify the value we create
  • Why we need to stop debating semantics
  • Why organisations continue to (rightfully) invest in Data & Analytics despite not seeing great success
  • Why the data community can come across as “preachy” and “finger wavey” in communicating best practices
  • Why data literacy is a loaded term that turns the table of accountability
  • Why it’s a product problem and not a user problem
  • Why it always come down to centralisation V decentralisation and why you need to do both!
  • The future of data sharing and the economies of scale it can create
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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.

About your host

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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.