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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Gut Feeling vs. Data Informed Decision Making
Data Analytics & BI

Reframing VUCA in a Business Driven Data Strategy

This post was inspired after my conversation with Mark Stouse on The Data Strategy Show. You have to love the headlin...

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Gut Feeling vs. Data Informed Decision Making
Data Analytics & BI

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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Gut Feeling vs. Data Informed Decision Making
Data Analytics & BI

Stop Trying to Build a “Data Culture”

There’s a familiar pattern in the data world: we get caught up in the latest trend and lose sight of what really matt...

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Gut Feeling vs. Data Informed Decision Making
Data Analytics & BI

Strategy Meets Autonomy: How to Align People, D...

It’s become quite apparent that we are moving from the age of digital transformation and we are moving, albeit slowly...

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Gut Feeling vs. Data Informed Decision Making
Data Analytics & BI

The Myth of Perfect Data

In the last week I've spoken to a number of data management professionals about data and LLMs. Most say we can't crea...

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Gut Feeling vs. Data Informed Decision Making
Data Management

Why the Chief Data Officer Should Report to the...

The debate rages on and on! The CDO position has been the most under fire recently, and that’s quite normal as the ro...

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Gut Feeling vs. Data Informed Decision Making
Data Analytics & BI

Who Should Own Data Architecture?

The question of who should own data architecture, is it the CTO or does the CDO own it, has sparked heated debates in...

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Gut Feeling vs. Data Informed Decision Making
Artificial Intelligence

Why Leaders Should Stop Obsessing Over “Being A...

The question isn’t whether you are AI-ready; it’s whether you are value-ready. There’s been a growing chorus over the...

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