Food for thoughts...
Partner Data & AI Transformations @ Rewire / Inspiring people about AI / Keynote speaker / Finalist Young Talent Award Topvrouw van het Jaar
Who does the swimming at your company? I think you can all imagine different departments within your company as different islands within a huge ocean. Sales on their sales island, marketing on their marketing island, account management at their account management island, finance on their finance island - you get the point. And of course data science on their data science island and IT on their IT island. Not to forget leadership on their big leadership island. The question is: who does the swimming? Because for successful projects, you need each other. You need to work together and you need to understand each other! The world is too complex to solve problems in siloes and the opportunities are too big! Especially in the field of Data & AI projects, you need many different expertises to create breakthroughs that create business impact. A Data Scientist shouldn’t make a model without understanding the business context. The product owner shouldn’t make a plan without the input from the tech team. We shouldn’t make a process redesign without the people involved in the current and new process! You can spend a lot of time swimming between the islands (btw often one team is doing most of the swimming). But what if we gather at a new, uninhabited island? A tropical place where we can combine all expertises and create a whole new world? Redesigning our business and our processes from scratch? Utilizing all our knowledge but not hindered by the status-quo. Embracing all the potential of AI? It all starts with an inspiring and shared goal, a common language and the curiosity to learn from each other. But imagine what a beautiful island this can be!
