Forging a Strong Data Culture with AI and Analytics with Prashanth Southekal

Decisions Now

Data analytics and AI are terms we hear in the market way too often. Everywhere you go, people want data-driven insights, now more than ever it's essential to understand what it takes to forge this strong analytic transformation journey. In the ninth episode of the Decisions Now podcast, we talked with Data and Analytics Professor at IE Business School and Founder of DBP Institute, Prashanth Southekal about what it takes to build a strong data culture powered by AI and analytics.
In this conversation, co-hosts Rigvinath Chevala, EVS chief technology officer, and Erin Pearson, EVS VP of Marketing talk to Southekal about what data analytics can do for you, types of insights, and the criteria that make insights actionable.
📌Key Takeaways
✔️Data analytics and types of insights ✔️Making insights actionable ✔️Translating the insights ✔️Data literacy, and ✔️Building a data culture.
📌Quote Takeaways in this Episode
📣 “The whole purpose of data analytics is to ask the relevant questions, so as to gain insight to facilitate decision-making,” Southekal said. “It is basically patterned, specifically, it's about correlations, it's about relationships, inferences, outliers, predictions, so on and so forth, which will help me make a decision if I had not known it earlier.”
📌The Speakers in This Episode:
🎙️Rigvinath (Rigvi) Chevala | Chief Technology Officer, Evalueserve www.evalueserve.com
🎙️Erin Pearson | VP Marketing, Evalueserve www.evalueserve.com
🎙️Prashanth Southekal | Data and Analytics Professor at IE Business School and Founder of DBP Institute.