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

<p>In Episode 46 of Season 3, of Driven by Data: The Podcast, Kyle Winterbottom is joined by, Ben Steele, Head of Data &amp; 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;</p><ul><li>Being the first data leader through the door </li><li>Owning and implementing the first data strategy in an organisation </li><li>Operating in low data maturity environments </li><li>Generating between £50-100m in revenue through Data &amp; Analytics </li><li>Why it isn’t the job of a data team to define what value means for a business </li><li>Why you can’t distil value down to one single meaning or metric </li><li>Data use cases versus business use cases </li><li>The importance of being comfortable having purely business conversations </li><li>Why collaboration is the single biggest superpower of a Data &amp; Analytics team</li><li>What you should expect to be measured by as a Data Leader</li><li>What business leaders, boards, shareholders, etc, view as “value” </li><li>The importance of getting the balance of skills in a team correct </li><li>Working effectively with other business leaders/peers</li><li>How to successfully engage a business leadership team</li><li>The importance of Data Literacy to the success of the CDO</li><li>The perfect conditions for success in a CDO role</li><li>Why talking about attribution of revenue is the wrong question</li><li>Why the notion of a Data Strategy will hopefully become redundant</li></ul><br/>