Data Debrief: It's coming home! Solving Problems & Career Journeys
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Catherine and Kyle discuss insights from their conversation with Peter Crouch on innovation and problem-solving in the data and AI landscape.
Welcome to another episode of The Data Debrief, the companion show to Driven by Data: The Podcast, where hosts Catherine Dowden-King and Kyle Winterbottom unpack Tuesday's episode, share what's been on their minds, and explore the realities of leadership, culture, and capability across the data and AI landscape. This week, Catherine and Kyle reflect on the conversation with Peter Crouch, Group Innovation Director at Lloyd's Banking Group, digging into what it really takes to build an innovation function that earns its keep, why "solving the right problem" beats "solving the problem right," and the discipline required to stay pragmatic about AI when the pressure to look busy is everywhere. They cover: Why Peter's insistence that his team isn't a consultancy or a bolt-on, but something fully embedded in the business, matters for how any new function establishes its identity and avoids becoming just another side-of-desk activity The distinction Peter drew between solving the right problem and solving a problem right, and why so much technical effort gets poured into questions that were never worth asking in the first place Catherine's tie-in to a Rory Sutherland case study on…
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