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 teamWhat you should expect to be measured by as a Data LeaderWhat 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/peersHow to successfully engage a business leadership teamThe importance of Data Literacy to the success of the CDOThe perfect conditions for success in a CDO roleWhy talking about attribution of revenue is the wrong questionWhy the notion of a Data Strategy will hopefully become redundant