S3 | Ep 50 | The Seven Sins of Data Transformation with Joseph George, CEO of Dufrain

<p>In Episode 50, of Season 3, of Driven by Data: The Podcast, Kyle Winterbottom is joined by Joseph George, CEO at Dufrain, where they discuss the seven sins of data transformation, which includes; </p><ul><li>The differences between being an employee in a big corporate to running a business </li><li>The realities of the Data Science hype cycle in 2017/18</li><li>Why the good work is only done in pockets and silos</li><li>Research that suggests that only 27% of organisations are ready to achieve benefits from AI</li><li>Why they commissioned their ‘State of Data’ Report and some of the key findings </li><li>Why most organisations believe they’re significantly more data mature than they actually are </li><li>Why data is important but not urgent </li><li>How most organisations can’t tie their D&amp;A work to any increase in profit /revenue </li><li>The reality of how organisations are still using data within an organisation</li><li>How organisations are suffering from the “streetlight effect”</li><li>Why most data and analytics projects still don’t deliver the desired benefits </li><li>How most of the blockers are non-technical </li><li>The seven sins of data transformation </li><li>Why data is an afterthought in most transformation programmes </li><li>The lack of good programme/project management on most data and analytics initiatives </li><li>The importance of understanding what success and ‘completed’ is for different stakeholders</li><li>Why many agile projects aren’t actually agile</li><li>The three lenses of collaboration and why the lack of it negatively impacts many D&amp;A projects </li><li>Why everyone needs to think and act commercially and speak in business language </li><li>Why it all ties back to revenue</li><li>Why we all have to look in the mirror </li><li>The importance of being able to articulate the benefit of any data initiative </li><li>Why the CIO is being chosen over the CDO for having responsibility for AI</li></ul><br/><p>You can find The State of Data Report here; https://www.dufrain.co.u