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Leadership Perspectives
Making Sense of Data with Tableau – Episode 3 – Maxime Cohen on Becoming a Data Driven, Innovative Organization
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Analytics has a major role in enabling innovation-induced growth among small and medium sized businesses, allowing them to scale-up rapidly. In this third episode of our five-part series on data analytics, Maxime Cohen talks with host Takara Small about the necessary steps for managers and owners to jump into the data analytics space, as well why small and medium sized organizations cannot afford to ignore data analytics.
About our guest:
Maxime Cohen is the Scale AI Chair Professor of Retail and Operations Management and co-director of the Retail Innovation Lab at McGill University. He is the Chief AI Officer of ELNA Medical and a Scientific Advisor in AI and Data Science at IVADO Labs. He is actively advising corporations, retailers, and startups on topics related to pricing, retail, and data science. He has collaborated with many companies including Google, Waze, Oracle, IBM Research, Via, Spotify, Aldo Group, CoucheTard and he is on the advisory board of several startups.
This is the third episode of Making Sense of Data, a mini-series from Tableau and The Conference Board of Canada. Access all of our research at conferenceboard.ca