![]() Steve’s team would ask, “could we respond as quickly as the functional analytics teams could?” There was also an added challenge of competing with silos of analytics capabilities across various functional groups. ![]() Steve recognized that while the appetite to strategically leverage data was strong, there simply were not enough in-house data scientists to achieve the company’s goals. Over the past few years, as Western Digital worked to combine three companies into one, which required ensuring both data quality and interoperability, Steve and his team had a material call to action to develop a data strategy that could: The nature of the company’s products requires engineers to model out the most efficient designs for new data storage devices, while also managing margins amid competitive market pressures. Led by Steve Phillpott, Chief Information Officer and head of the Digital Analytics Office (DAO), Western Digital is future- proofing its data and analytics capabilities through a flexible platform that collects and processes data in a way that enables a diverse set of stakeholders to realize business value.Īs a computer Hard Disk Drive (HDD) manufacturer and data storage company, Western Digital already has tech-savvy stakeholders with an insatiable appetite for leveraging data to drive improvement across product development, manufacturing and global logistics. At Western Digital, it is becoming a reality. For some companies, this vision is realized only in PowerPoint slides. You have heard the hype: Data is the “new oil” that will power next-generation business models and unlock untold efficiencies.
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