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and operating models to scale AI across
their enterprises
• A lot less emphasis on ‘proving the
value of AI’ and a lot more on realising
sustainable organisational outcomes by
bringing together AI, engineering and
behavioural sciences
What advice would you offer
somebody aspiring to obtain C-level
position in your industry?
What do you currently identify as
the major areas of investment in
your industry?
I see three key areas of investment:
• Infrastructure-as-a-Service and
progression into a serverless world
• Talent, specifically with AI (ML and
deep learning) and platform/ML
engineering skills
• Intelligent process automation, a
significant upgrade over traditional RPA,
allowing organisations to reimagine
various parts of their business
How do you deal with stress and
unwind outside of the office?
It’s too much fun for me to want to feel
the stress. We are in the middle of a global
intelligence revolution and I feel we have
the opportunity to reimagine our roles as
analytics leaders and shape enterprise
outcomes in an effective manner.
If you could go back and change
one career decision, what would
it be?
Absolutely nothing. I couldn’t have charted
this journey out any differently.
What are the region-specific
challenges when implementing new
technologies in Europe?
• Skills that are in demand are in extreme
short supply especially around data
engineering and AI algorithm development
• Europe is fairly behind the US and China
from a digital adoption standpoint and
risks falling further behind on the AI
journey unless countries seed the AI
ecosystem through the right stimuli
including investments
• Continuing politico-economic uncertainty
in the Eurozone is another impediment to
the AI explosion
What changes to your job role have
you seen in the last year and how do
you see these developing in the next
12 months?
• Clients are now asking us to help them
shape the AI transformation roadmap
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• Invest the time to continue learning at
speed, especially on AI scaling models
• Tackle not the highest visibility problem,
but one that touches the greatest
number of people in the organisation
and generates positive outcomes
through AI, engineering and design
• Evangelise the positive changes that
can be generated through AI across
the organisation and enhance the
organisation’s overall AI capability n
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WE ARE IN
THE MIDDLE
OF A GLOBAL
INTELLIGENCE
REVOLUTION AND I
FEEL WE HAVE THE
OPPORTUNITY
TO REIMAGINE
OUR ROLES AS
ANALYTICS
LEADERS
AND SHAPE
ENTERPRISE
OUTCOMES IN
AN EFFECTIVE
MANNER.
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