S3 | Ep 16 | Delivering £500m in Value with Benny (Clive) Benford, Chief Data Officer, Formerly of JLR

<p>In Episode 16 of Season 3, of Driven By Data: The Podcast, Kyle Winterbottom is joined by Benny (Clive) Benford, Chief Data Officer, Formerly of Jaguar LandRover (JLR), where they discuss the journey to realising £500m in commercial value through data and analytics, which includes;&nbsp;</p><ul><li>The journey of building a Data &amp; Analytics function at JLR</li><li>How they unlocked and realised £500m worth of commercial benefit and value </li><li>How to ensure the data team is consistently delivering value</li><li>The importance of having a process of engagement </li><li>How to prioritise the workload and the value the potential return of each project </li><li>How to allocate/attribute value </li><li>The mission statement of creating £1m of value per team member, per year </li><li>Transforming decision-making across an entire enterprise </li><li>Why it’s important for senior data leadership needs to wait for the right career opportunity </li><li>Why the conditions are so important to success</li><li>Why most business users/leaders don’t view data as something that can provide “value” </li><li>Making the business case for large-scale investment </li><li>Why you need to agree on the value before you commit to any project </li><li>The impact of the hype in Data &amp; Analytics </li><li>Why there are so many instances where organisations are tech-first and value-last</li><li>Who’s to blame for a lack of ROI</li><li>Why it’s so important to have a range of skills and not just data/technical skills </li><li>Why over 1/3 of the team didn’t have a technical skillset </li><li>Why everyone underestimates the level of change required to deliver value </li><li>The importance of a communication strategy and how to utilise it well </li><li>How they quantified that if they could deliver all projects, there would be £1.2b of value </li><li>The importance of your people knowing why they’re doing the work</li><li>How they built an apprenticeship programme of 700 people (15-17% of all data apprentices in UK) </li><li>Where t