Chapter 1: The Keys to AI Success

Welcome to your weekly digest on Data, AI, and Analytics! In this publication, I sift through the week’s most engaging data stories, highlighting what’s trending and what’s not. If you find this content valuable, please consider liking, commenting, and subscribing.

1 — What Drives Success in AI Implementation?

A noteworthy piece from the Harvard Business Review emphasizes a critical factor: data accessibility. The research reveals that all successful companies grant frontline employees access to data, in contrast to just 62% of others. Additionally, these leaders actively gather data from customers and suppliers, with 89% sharing their own data in return. Discover more insights here.

2 — Koffie Labs: A 10X Reduction in Quote Processing? How Is This Possible?

3 — Join Us for a Tech Innovation Discussion Next Week!

What are your plans for next Thursday? I invite you to join me and fellow data enthusiasts for a live session where we will explore the latest innovations in Google Cloud Data Analytics. Prepare your questions and feel free to send them my way on LinkedIn. Register here!

4 — Tyson Foods' Data Platform Revolution

Discover how Tyson Foods transformed their data platform to offer ingestion as a service, achieving an impressive 3.25TB of data ingestion daily and executing 25,000 Dataflow jobs. Learn more about their initiative, known as DICE (Data Ingestion Compute Engine), in this detailed article by Nate Marks and Sagar Kewalramani.

5 — Best Practices for Data Practitioners

I am honored to collaborate on this column with Abdul Razack, VP of Solutions Engineering at Google Cloud. We delve into essential best practices for data practitioners. I hope you find it as enjoyable to read as we did to create!

Acknowledgments

A special thank you to the Data team at Woolworths for their warm hospitality this week. It was a pleasure exchanging ideas on data innovations with such remarkable leaders. I look forward to meeting all of you in person soon! Special thanks to Dominique H. and her incredible team, as well as Shehdeen Farooq for making this happen!

Also, I’m grateful to the L’Oréal team for their recognition! It is a true honor.