Samir Sharma

Samir Sharma

Samir’s focus is to empower business users by enabling informed decision making through data. As principal at datazuum, Samir has the ability to tackle both business and technology challenges. He has 20 years of international experience in the UK, Europe, Africa, USA, all gained from consulting and strategy roles across a variety of sectors – Aerospace & Defence, Government, High End Luxury Retail, Postal, Telecoms. Prior to datazuum, Samir led the decision sciences team for a large organisation where he delivered strategic data driven Business Intelligence & Analytics solutions across all sectors.

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Create More Tension: A Call to Data and Analytics Teams to Drive Business Outcomes
Data Analytics & BI

The Board Question That Rarely Gets Asked

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Create More Tension: A Call to Data and Analytics Teams to Drive Business Outcomes
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Create More Tension: A Call to Data and Analytics Teams to Drive Business Outcomes
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Data Strategy Behaviors

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Create More Tension: A Call to Data and Analytics Teams to Drive Business Outcomes
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Integrating Business, Data, and Technology Use ...

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Create More Tension: A Call to Data and Analytics Teams to Drive Business Outcomes
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Gut Feeling vs. Data Informed Decision Making

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Create More Tension: A Call to Data and Analytics Teams to Drive Business Outcomes
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Why Insurers Need a Solid Data Strategy

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Create More Tension: A Call to Data and Analytics Teams to Drive Business Outcomes
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Generating AI Use Cases

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Where it all began: Finding Business and Data

I started my career as a programmer in COBOL, RPG400, and Unix. After a few years, I decided that was enough. Not bec...

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Create More Tension: A Call to Data and Analytics Teams to Drive Business Outcomes
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Business Driven Data Strategy - The Route to Su...

I was playing my trumpet this morning and thought about strategy as one does! Here are my thoughts: If you are thinki...

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