Allison Sagraves joined the Hub and Spoken podcast at Cynozure to talk about her move into becoming a Portfolio CDO, why you need to learn how to prioritise value as a data leader, winning ugly, and her take on how data culture is different to business culture.

One big message

There is a big push for the democratisation of data in big corporations to foster a healthy data culture but are activities like this always necessary? Resources are not limitless so it is good to get into a habit of checking your activities and taking focused action in order to get the best results.

[00:45] Why Allison left her job at a Big 4 Bank to take on a portfolio

[04:08] Providing value with data and ways the value can be reflected within the company

[11:30] Why success criteria needs to be aligned with business objectives

[18:50] How to strategically create reasonable expectation

[21:26] Prioritisation in data

[27:10] Creating a well-rounded data team

[32:15] Delivering value at scale

[37:50] Why you need to understand the ‘why’ behind a strategy before running off to implement