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Is AI going to affect the number of jobs in your company in the next 12 months?

Culture & Values AI & Machine Learning

Yes, more jobs created

Yes, jobs lost to AI

Other (please comment)

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Who is best informed to have the final decision on how the IT budget should be spent?

Lead Architect

Lead Developer

Lead Engineer

Business Unit Leaders

CIO

CFO

CEO

Other (please specify in comment section)

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What's the best way to counter low empowerment on your teams?

Talent Management & Performance Employee Engagement Mentoring & Coaching

Emotional intelligence training for leaders & management

Progress meters

Impact-Effort boards

Strategic retrospectives

Town halls focused on enablement & team appreciation

Demonstrations of how tasks & initiatives drive business outcomes

Other (please list below!)

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Companies that don't continuously foster internal innovation are in danger of falling behind.

IT Strategy & Roadmap Innovation Culture & Values

Strongly agree

Agree

Neutral

Disagree

Strongly disagree

Unsure

Other (please explain in the comments)

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Performance management systems and metrics should be reviewed and changed regularly.

Talent Management & Performance KPIs, Metrics & Reporting Employee Engagement

Strongly agree

Agree

Neutral

Disagree

Strongly disagree

Unsure

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Intelligent Process Automation (IPA) is the use of technology, such as artificial intelligence and machine learning, to automate and optimize business processes. It aims to improve efficiency, reduce costs, and enhance decision-making. How far along is your company?

Security & GRC Engineering AI & Machine Learning

IPA has significantly improved our operations.

IPA has not brought much change to our operations.

IPA is very similar to traditional automation in our company.

IPA is quite different from traditional automation in our company.

Our company had a smooth implementation of IPA.

Our company faced some challenges during the implementation of IPA.

Our organization has integrated IPA with other technologies such as RPA and BPM.

Our organization has not yet integrated IPA with other technologies.

We have not yet encountered any significant challenges with IPA.

Our organization has automated some processes using IPA.

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What do you think is the hottest trend in Data & Analytics now and major priorities for CDO in near future??

Data & Analytics Database Disruptive & Emerging Technologies+2 more

Connected Governance and Trusted Intelligence

Data on the cloud (Modernizing data landscape)

Data Fabric , Data Mesh and Data sharing capability

XOPs (Data Ops, ML Ops, DevOps)

Artificial Intelligence & Intelligent Apps/ Automation using deep learning, Generative AI

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Can artificial intelligence replace the need for human data analysts in the future?

Data & Analytics

Yes

Other - please share your thought in the comment.

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Who owns data and analytics at your organization?

Data & Analytics Team & Organizational Design Process Management

Business-side leader owns both data and analytics

IT-side leader owns both data and analytics

IT-side leader owns data while business-side leader owns analytics

None of these describe it

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In your opinion, when do you think artificial intelligence (AI) will transform even the C-Suite by creating a brand new role called Chief AI Officer (CAIO)?

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2024

2028

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Would like to get some feedback on the marketplace capabilities of both Databricks and Snowflake. Would like to see if anyone has a comparison around this, I am looking at the marketplace capability.

Feedback Data Warehouse Document Databases+3 more

Ram YermalSenior Data and Analytics Leader at Department of Government Enablement in Government2 months ago

Databricks provides a unified data platform that allows to perform data engineering, data science, and machine learning. Allows users to be able to share analytics workflows and supports data sharing in real time using the ...read more

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What ethical considerations do you prioritize when developing or deploying AI solutions?

Ram YermalSenior Data and Analytics Leader at Department of Government Enablement in Government6 months ago

Here are some of the ethical considerations I follow while considering any AI use case

Human, societal and environmental wellbeing: AI systems should benefit individuals, society and the environment.
Human-centred ...read more

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What key performance indicators (KPIs) do you use to measure the success of your AI initiatives?

Ram YermalSenior Data and Analytics Leader at Department of Government Enablement in Government6 months ago

When measuring AI initiatives' success, it's essential to focus on quantitative metrics such as cost savings from automation, revenue increase from new products or services, productivity gains, and improved customer conversion ...read more

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What are the maturity models or frameworks for assessing an organization's readiness for Generative AI adoption?

Ram YermalSenior Data and Analytics Leader at Department of Government Enablement in Government4 months ago

The TDWI AI Readiness Assessment can be used in this case - https://tdwi.org/Pages/Assessments/ADV-ALL-TDWI-AI-Readiness-Assessment.aspx

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Has anyone created a side-by-side comparison of Snowflake/DataBricks/Microsoft Fabric/Synapse on Azure? Could you please suggest a resource or share your thoughts?

Data & Analytics

Ram YermalSenior Data and Analytics Leader at Department of Government Enablement in Government6 months ago

Snowflake and Databricks are the industry leaders in the modern data landscape. However, Databricks as a platform it offers more features and functions for typical D&A and Advanced analytics. When it comes to snowflake, it ...read more

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What are the most effective data-driven strategies for business growth?

Data & Analytics Strategy & Architecture

Ram YermalSenior Data and Analytics Leader at Department of Government Enablement in Government8 months ago

There would be many, but here are a few ideas:
1. Leveraging customer analytics to understand and anticipate customer needs allows for personalized offerings and targeted marketing
2. Employing predictive analytics ...read more

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How is your organization harnessing sustainable energy practices in your enterprise data platform architecture?

Data & Analytics Data Center Infrastructure+1 more

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What are some of the most effective ways for a data leader to advance their career?

Data & Analytics People & Leadership

Ram YermalSenior Data and Analytics Leader at Department of Government Enablement in Governmenta month ago

First and foremost, become a good storyteller. Data is powerful, but it's useless if you can't translate it into compelling narratives that drive action. Practice distilling complex analyses into clear, impactful stories ...read more

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At what point do you assess your messaging about data and analytics impacts to ensure it aligns with the overall business objectives and goals? And how do you go about this?

Ram YermalSenior Data and Analytics Leader at Department of Government Enablement in Government2 months ago

The challenge lies in the fact that a lot of the messaging and communication we do across different levels of the organization doesn't always come to fruition. The easiest way to assess this is by looking at the results and ...read more

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There is a lot of talk about using storytelling to better communicate the value of data and analytics — how much do you personally know about the art of storytelling and how to improve these skills?

Ram YermalSenior Data and Analytics Leader at Department of Government Enablement in Government2 months ago

To be honest, I'm not an expert in storytelling and I'm somewhat skeptical of some of the advice around it. I think spending time building relationships and understanding what's on the agenda of the stakeholders for any presentation ...read more

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How do you overcome technical jargon or complexity barriers in data communication? Can you share examples of how you have simplified complex data insights to make them more understandable and relatable to stakeholders?

Ram YermalSenior Data and Analytics Leader at Department of Government Enablement in Government2 months ago

There are two main ways I approach this. The first is through our ongoing process. The reports we generate or any visualizations we do are simplified forms of complex data. These are presented to different stakeholders and ...read more

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Have you noticed any trends in the technology landscape for data and/or analytics that you think are being unwisely overlooked or ignored?

Data & Analytics Disruptive & Emerging Technologies People & Leadership

Ram YermalSenior Data and Analytics Leader at Department of Government Enablement in Government2 months ago

I have realized for data and analytics we are still on reports & dashboard , organization find very difficult to move to augmented analytics, analytics product and analytics driven intelligence impact orchestration.

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When determining where to make your key investments for the year, how do you factor in trends from the broader data and analytics sphere of business? Any examples of how D&A trends impacted your key investments for 2024?

Data & Analytics Strategy & Architecture Process Management

Ram YermalSenior Data and Analytics Leader at Department of Government Enablement in Government2 months ago

You've got to stay current without losing sight of what actually matters for your business. It's a constant juggling act, but when you get it right, it's pretty rewarding.

For 2024, we've been particularly influenced ...read more

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What has your company done in terms of forming governance and an implementation approach for the European Data Act? Who owns it, what is the role of general IT vs a compliance function like Privacy?

Relationship Management

Ram YermalSenior Data and Analytics Leader at Department of Government Enablement in Government2 months ago

Our Office of the CISO owns it, sets the policy and standards that are signed off by the Board, Compliance function is owned by Finance (i.e. Internal Audit) and General IT operationalizes it.

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