You are listening to great talks, podcasts, webinars on how to improve and take your data and analytics to the next level. You want to take all these ideas and start implementing them in your organization. But how do you start? Join Tim, Juan and Roel Pot, Global Data Manager at Vopak where they discuss how to go from thought leadership to practice.

Conversation highlights:

• [01:09] Today's drinks
• [05:02] Sifting through noise and convincing your organization on the importance of data
• [07:11] Challenging tradition in data governance and modeling
• [09:53] Data as an asset and finding business value
• [14:06] Data and business literacy through the data academy
• [18:16] Bridging the gap in language, business, and data literacy
• [19:48] The academy's purpose
• [21:16] Building Vopak into a resilient company to last another 400 years
• [25:21] How being an asset-rich business has affected Vopak's data strategy
• [27:45] Connecting the dots with data acquisition and distributed systems
• [29:58] Decentralized teams and better collaboration
• [31:51] Real-time data sensors and minimizing time for data analysis
• [35:24] Why real-time for analytics?
• [36:24] To Data Mesh, or Not To Data Mesh
• [38:46] Self-service and understanding ways of gathering and processing data
• [40:19] Different roles and the confusion it can cause within organizations