Elaine Priest, Chief Data Officer, Data Transformation, NatWest
What impact has the pandemic had on the role of data in your company/organisation? Even before the pandemic, the organisation had shifted its focus towards a co-creative and symbiotic relationship with data. As we drive forwards to become the relationship bank for a digital age our focus on data will not relent. The pandemic […]
Hywel Benbow, Senior Vice President, Global Data and Analytics, GEMS Education
What impact has the pandemic had on the role of data in your company/organisation? There’s certainly been an increase in focus on how data and analytics can help people understand the impact the pandemic is having on different parts of the organisation, be it student learning outcomes or student numbers. Data teams need […]
Christina Finlay, Director of Data and Analytics, Nest Corporation (Pensions)
What impact has the pandemic had on the role of data in your company/organisation? Cross-organisation collaboration has to be so much more deliberate. The pandemic has meant more proactive outreach for us, making sure that people are building data into their plans. It’s easier for everyone to keep data top of mind when you […]
Gareth Powell, Group Data Officer, Irwin Mitchell
What impact has the pandemic had on the role of data in your company/organisation? I joined Studio Retail during the pandemic. Like many organisations, Studio reflected on the transformative areas that will move the proposition forward and identified data as an area for us to drive the transformation agenda further. To that effect, we […]
Issi Saumtally, Chief Data Officer, Cabinet Office
What impact has the pandemic had on the role of data in your company/organisation? The pandemic elevated the role of data both in its importance to deliver the day-to-day and as the glue to enable meaningful change. At the start of the pandemic, we identified gaps in the organisation’s data architecture to support delivery (of […]
David Hutcheson, Head of Data and Analysis, BMJ
What impact has the pandemic had on the role of data in your company/organisation? 2020 was about weathering the impact of the pandemic organisationally and understandably some of the future aspirations for data were not able to be progressed. Through 2021 the understanding that a strong data capability is needed to underpin the future […]
Jessica Rusu, Chief Data Officer, Chetwood Financial
How is your organisation using data and analytics to support the corporate vision and purpose? Chetwood Financial is a challenger bank that uses data and analytics to make customers better off. Chetwood has built its technology using low-cost cloud analytics and server-less technologies to enable digital banking. 2020 was a year like no […]
Richard Bovey, Head of Analytics Projects, Analytics Centre of Excellence, Jaguar Land Rover
How is your organisation using data and analytics to support the corporate vision and purpose? JLR’s “customer-first” strategy sees data and analytics underpinning the business’ ability to deliver great products, but most recently data and analytics has had the greatest impact in delivery of the business transformation agenda. We’re putting data at the […]
Wullie Grubb, Senior Manager – Marketing Analytics, Virgin Money
How is your organisation using data and analytics to support the corporate vision and purpose? At Virgin Money, we are tirelessly improving our entire customer experience through the use data and analytics throughout the customer journey. Continuing to increase our understanding of customers is enabled by undertaking intelligent analytics of how customers engage with […]
Joe Nathan, Director of Digital and Data Services, HIG European Capital Services
How is your organisation using data and analytics to support the corporate vision and purpose? It’s slightly different in private equity. HIG has more than 30 companies in its active portfolio across Europe, so in effect that’s more than 30 data strategies. We’re taking a crawl, walk, then run approach, in terms of getting […]
Martin Squires, Director of Advanced Analytics, Pets At Home
How is your organisation using data and analytics to support the corporate vision and purpose? Pets At Home has established “using data and the VIP loyalty scheme to better serve customers” as one of our four strategic pillars, intended to keep us ahead of the curve in the pet care industry. We recognise we […]
Chris Bannocks, Chief Data Officer, Danone
How is your organisation using data and analytics to support the corporate vision and purpose? We are diving for sustainable profitable growth while supporting our important vision of “One planet, one health”. The process of creating sustainable profitable growth means focusing in on the data transformations that are game-changing and yield the best opportunities […]
Joe Rice, Data and Enterprise Solutions, Twitter
How is your organisation using data and analytics to support the corporate vision and purpose? Twitter’s purpose is to keep the world informed by serving the public conversation. This means surfacing real-time, relevant content and making it easy for anyone, anywhere to participate and share their voice. Key to this is ensuring a healthy […]
Chris Parker, Associate Director – Data Insight, BGL Group
How is your organisation using data and analytics to support the corporate vision and purpose? Data plays a key role in driving the corporate vision, we work in a data rich industry and being able to leverage that data asset is hugely important. I think what is noticeable and telling is that data is […]
Elizabeth Hollinger, Director of Insight, Aggreko
How is your organisation using data and analytics to support the corporate vision and purpose? The objective of our data strategy is to accelerate delivery of value of our organisation’s strategy. We work collaboratively with subject matter experts across our global business, using data to help solve our most complex business problems. This alignment […]
Meera Naik, Head of Data Transformation, Barnardo’s
How is your organisation using data and analytics to support the corporate vision and purpose? Barnardo’s core aim is to achieve better outcomes for more children. As part of our digital strategy, we are looking to become a data-first organisation and use the wealth of data we have to support data-enabled systems change and […]
Roshan Awatar, Data and Analytics Strategy Director, Lloyds Banking Group
How is your organisation using data and analytics to support the corporate vision and purpose? The scale of usage is certainly increasing as we are shifting from ad hoc, spot examples of data exploitation to more “at scale”. With the increasing profile, awareness and capability surrounding machine learning and analytics, data exploitation is at […]
Chris Teolis, Head of Data Office and Analytics, Heathrow Airport
How is your organisation using data and analytics to support the corporate vision and purpose? Heathrow’s vision is to give passengers the best airport service in the world. We cannot do that without knowing who our passengers are and how to make their individual journeys better. Our research and insights team develop a deep […]
Jonathan Roberts, Deputy Director of Data Science and HR Analysis, Ministry of Justice
How is your organisation using data and analytics to support the corporate vision and purpose? The Ministry’s purpose is to protect and advance the principle of justice. We have a large analytical community that works together with colleagues right across the Ministry and beyond to ensure that data, analysis and evidence underpins huge swathes […]
Sameer Rahman, Interim Director of Insights, The Royal Mint
How is your organisation using data and analytics to support the corporate vision and purpose? The Royal Mint’s vision is to be Britain’s most trusted and authentic organisation. The vision of the data team is to unify and use our data to get closer to our customers to gain their trust. There is strong […]