Join the conversation between Michael Street (nato) and Laura van Beers (Shell) in their fireside chat, discussing how to get the balance right between the ‘hard side’ of building a data driven organisation and the ‘soft side’ of creating a thriving data culture 

Key take aways: 

• Ownership is key 

• Data is abstract-connect it to business outcomes to get focus

• Measure- make sure data is part of process KPI’s

• No sustained value from algorithms/digital product if data is only important during project phase 

• Data strategy should be part of digital strategy

• Identify critical data first (and clean based on value) 

• Determine ‘what good looks like’ (data does not have to be 100% perfect) 

• How to develop the experts – training and educating data scientists/ architects on data and soft skills

• Positive impact of diversity on business outcomes