As the Managing Executive Officer & CDO at Rakuten, Takuya Kitagawa’s charter is both varied and complex. For the past four years, he has guided the digital native through accelerated expansion into multiple industries, including online banking, shopping, mobile communications, and travel, in order to deliver customers a more integrated and affordable servic ... Show More
Dec 17
GenAI Best Practices: What Early Adopters Have Learned
In this special episode, host Cindi Howson pulls together the most useful, and hard-won, lessons from a year of conversations with Data Chiefs leading the GenAI charge. With generative and agentic AI no longer a side experiment, this episode spotlights five practices early adopte ... Show More
45m 14s
Dec 3
How Yum! Brands is Using Data & AI as a Recipe for Innovation with CDO Cameron Davies
Learn how one of the world’s biggest restaurant companies is turning data and AI into a recipe for global innovation. Cameron Davies, Chief Data Officer at Yum! Brands, shares how he’s combining strategy, technology, and change management to drive gobal growth. He explains how Yu ... Show More
40m 16s
Sep 2019
Big Data, Data Lakes, and Blockchain with Rahul Pathak, Executive at Amazon Web Services
Everyone knows that data is exploding. What most people don’t realize is the pace and ways in which data is changing our everyday lives. According to Rahul Pathak, we’re seeing a “roughly 10x increase in data every 5 years, and the types of data that’s being generated is changing ... Show More
44m 17s
May 2024
#208 Monetizing Data & AI with Vin Vashishta, Founder & AI Advisor at V Squared, & Tiffany Perkins-Munn, MD & Head of Data & Analytics at JPMC
Everything in the world has a price, including improving and scaling your data and AI functions. That means that at some point someone will question the ROI of your projects, and often, these projects will be looked at under the lens of monetization. But how do you ensure that wh ... Show More
1h 1m
Oct 2021
Youri Moscovic - Co Founder & CEO of Prediko #2
Our guest today is Youri Moscovic, Co-Founder and CEO of Prediko, an AI startup which is doing smart inventory planning for e-commerce businesses. In our conversation, we start by exploring the differences and similarities between AI and Operational Research (OR), a field that Yo ... Show More
44m 31s
Jun 2024
Tech at Work: The Future of Spatial Computing
Managing technology has never been more challenging. HBR IdeaCast’s new special series, Tech at Work, offers research, stories, and advice to make technology work for you and your team. This week: how to prepare your company for the future of spatial computing.
32m 9s
Jun 2024
#217 Data & AI at Tesco with Venkat Raghavan, Director of Analytics and Science at Tesco
Loyalty schemes are a hallmark of established retailers—not only do they build consumer trust, they are intelligent and constantly evolving, and Tesco’s Clubcard is the UK’s favorite retail loyalty program. The effects of these discounts are far-reaching, especially for families ... Show More
43m 30s
Dec 2021
Making the Turn from Data Inventory to Helpful Information with Mara Reiff, the Chief Data Officer of FreshBooks
<p>If data is in a pool that only keeps getting deeper as data inventory is accounted for, when is the exact moment for a business leader to jump in to do something with all the accumulated information? Leaders who care about data appreciate that it’s necessary to take stock befo ... Show More
32m 50s
Mar 2024
#190 How Data Leaders Can Make Data Governance a Priority with Saurabh Gupta, Chief Strategy & Revenue Officer at The Modern Data Company
There is a concept in software engineering which is called ‘shifting left’, this focuses on testing software a lot earlier in the development lifecycle than you would normally expect it to. This helps teams building the software create better rituals and processes, while also ens ... Show More
41m 56s
Sep 2021
From Different Leadership Vantage Points: Data Drives Value but is Driven by Values
<p>One way to think about data is that it is like rain, and it is pouring outside. Imagine c-suite executives running around in a parking lot with huge buckets trying to capture as much as they can. Afterward, they return to the office, analyze the data, and then decide what to d ... Show More
51m 50s