S7 | Ep 20 | Your Data & AI Investment Portfolio: How to Decide What Gets Funded with Nick Zervoudis, Founder at Value from Data & AI
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The episode discusses the challenges data and AI teams face in demonstrating measurable business value and introduces a five-point diagnostic framework for prioritizing investment opportunities.
In Episode 20 of Season 7 of Driven by Data: The Podcast, Kyle Winterbottom is joined by Nick Zervoudis, Founder at Value from Data & AI, where they discuss why so many data and AI teams struggle to demonstrate measurable business value — and why the real failure almost always happens upstream, long before anyone tries to articulate it. Nick makes the case that "we can't prove our value" is usually a symptom, not the disease: teams solve the wrong problem, skip the value case, or hand off value realisation to no one. Along the way they get into his five-point diagnostic framework, how to build a credible back-of-the-envelope ROI estimate before a line of code is written, how to prioritise a portfolio of opportunities, and where AI productivity savings are real versus imaginary. They also discuss: Why the inability to demonstrate value is usually an upstream failure, not a communication problem. What Nick's five-point framework reveals: wrong problem, wrong solution, poor execution, no measurement, weak communication. Why data teams keep solving the wrong problem by starting from technology instead of the problem itself. How to separate the "problem space" from the "solution…
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