Data Debrief: Social Media Ban, Buses & CDO Future
About this episode
Catherine and Kyle discuss insights from their conversation with David Krauza on data leadership and the challenges in data programmes.
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 David Krauza, VP of Enterprise Data Strategy, Products & Governance at Comcast, diving deeper into the "arts and crafts" trap that derails data programmes, the discipline of building stakeholder trust before you need it, and what it really takes to drive the bus rather than ride it. They cover: Why David's mandated business school module ended up shaping his outlook on data leadership, and the recurring pattern of guests whose commercial thinking was forged outside a purely technical background The "arts and crafts project" analogy David's boss used to describe technically impressive work that never moves the needle, and why naming the difference between process-enjoyment and outcome-focus matters as much in data as it does in any creative pursuit Why so much of the data and AI ecosystem gravitates toward…
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