What stage has your organization reached on its data maturity journey?
When I first joined Brambles about seven years ago, it was just embarking on its digital transformation. Now we collect data from more than a quarter million IOT devices, processing it in real time so we can generate valuable insights for ourselves and our customers. As a typically industrial company, Brambles has still made great strides in its data maturity. Smaller teams within the IT organization have split off and grown to handle things from governance to security and privacy.
Tell us about the data and analytics resources you are responsible for
Across Brambles Digital, we now have approximately 200 data and analytics personnel, the large majority of which have joined in the last 18 months, and I’ve been one of the senior leaders as part of the original core team from the start. We are globally dispersed across 11 countries, range in seniority from CEO-2 to entry level and are a diverse bunch in terms of background, experience and area of specialism. Currently, I formally manage a team of 15 consisting mainly of data scientists, but we’ve sprinkled in some software developers, dev ops engineers and test engineers. We focus on data science applications at the edge, be it interpreting data from our tracking devices to developing convolutional neural nets in our CV systems in our service centers.