Posted in AI use case, Data politics

AI can help defend European freedom

A child of the Cold War, I grew up hearing stories and learning deeply about World War 2. Much of my youth was spent pondering the new and old-world order. For that reason, I found the panel at the Data Festival in Munich inspiring. I hope it inspired others in the tech scene to support the use of data in defending European freedom.

Posted in Data Leadership, Data Products, Strategy

Data Festival 2022: Democracy, Mesh, Fabric

The industry seems to be disillusioned by centralized data assets, data warehouse and data lake alike and looking for the next big thing.

Posted in Data careers, Data Leadership, Hiring

What I look for when I hire a data professional

At the AI Guld Dinner, I was asked by a couple of people about what I look for when I hire data scientists. This advice can be scaled to all data professionals – and beyond.

Posted in Data Leadership, Data Products, Data-driven marketing, DataOps, Strategy

Take aways from Big Data World, May 2022

The right mix of governance and freedom in architecture is still up for debate, end-to-end solutions are often-heard recommendations, low and no-code is expanding access to data and the customer journey could be seen as a source of revenue are some insights I gleaned from this spring’s Big Data World.

Posted in Data Leadership, DataOps

Operational KPIs that will let you know your Data Team is creating impact (rather fixing & firefighting)

Data teams are usually busy, but are they impactful? Just because your data team is burning through tickets does not mean that they are creating impact, especially if they are stuck fixing and firefighting. Impact can be broken down into prioritization, coverage and quality. KPIs such as the statistical re-do rate, analytical throughput rate and effective analytical throughput rate that will help you quantify the impact of your data organization. This framework, along with external validation from stakeholders, is helpful to root cause and make business cases to invest in improvements.

Posted in AI use case, Data-driven marketing, Product analytics

Customer Segmentation: Rules-based vs. K-Means Clustering

Customer segmentation is a means by which you group customers into an identifiable category that you can use as a basis for analysis of a specific group of customers. Customer segmentation is useful for activities such as strategic planning, campaign planning & customer targeting, product analytics, planning customer communications, customer experience management, churn prediction, upselling, cross-selling, acquisition, sales operations and more.

Posted in Business, Data strategy, Data-driven marketing, Insights, Strategy

Turning customer relevancy into revenue

Monetizing customer relevancy through data-driven insights is key for any successful modern marketing campaign. Modern marketers work in a hypotheses-driven manner, using data to gain customer insight. Consumers and B2B customers have grown used to marketers understanding who they are, their behaviors, as well as when and how they want to communicate with you.

Posted in Data-driven marketing, Deutsch, KPIs

Digitale Kommunikation trifft Analytics- Erkenntisse aus den Digital Communication Awards

Ich hatte die Ehre, Jurymitglied bei den Quadriga Digital Communication Awards zu sein.Auf der After-Party baten mich einige Leute um Feedback und was sie beim nächsten Mal besser machen könnten. Hier ist eine Liste von Tipps, die nützlich sind, wenn es darum geht, die Wirkung Ihres Projekts zu vermitteln – und an jeden, der Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) verwendet, um den Wert Ihrer Arbeit zu kommunizieren.

Posted in Data-driven marketing, KPIs

Data meets Communications – takeaways from the Digital Communication Awards

At the after party some people asked me for feedback and what they could do better next time. Here is a list of tips that are useful when pitching the impact of your project, as well as to anybody using key performance indicators (KPIs) to communicate the value of your work.

Posted in Deutsch, Strategy

Das D3M Labs Manifesto (auf Deutsch)

Die Welt braucht mehr Visionäre mit gößen Ideen. D3M Labs möchte diesen Visionären die Werkzeuge zur Verfügung stellen, die sie benötigen, um erfolgreich über die Grenzen des heutigen Normalbetriebs hinauszugehen. Fantasie gepaart mit mutigen Entscheidungen auf der Grundlage von Daten, die in großem Maßtab umgesetzt werden, können und werden Industrien, Wirtschaft und die Welt verändern. Soziale Netzwerke, die gemeinsame Wirtschaft, maschinelles Lernen und mehr haben unseren Alltag grundlegend verändert. Alle diese Innovationen wurden uns durch Vision, Einsicht, Strategie und exzellente Umsetzung nahergebracht.