Ops Game Changers

S01E10: How Great Britain Rugby Sevens use data to drive performance in sport

ActiveOps Season 1 Episode 10

You’re listening to 'Ops Game Changers', the ActiveOps podcast where we share real-life stories from remarkable leaders that are revolutionizing the world of service operations. In this series, we explore some of the key challenges faced by service operations as they strive to deliver more - more capacity, more productivity and more business impact. Host, Bhavesh Vaghela (CMO at ActiveOps) quizzes his guests on how they went about unlocking significant value, adopting best practices, and experiencing some game-changing results.

As the Official Analytics Partner to Great Britain Rugby Sevens (GB7s), we are joined in this episode by Ciaran Beattie, ex-professional Rugby Sevens player turned Director of Rugby for GB7s. We explore the impact that data analytics has on elite sports teams, and how coaches can make data-driven decisions to drive team and individual performance. Ciaran talks about his career path, how he and his coaches use data to analyze and make decisions about players and the team, and dives into what the future holds for the sport in terms of AI and data insights. 

The GB7s men's and women’s teams are the representative teams of Great Britain, a game in which a team of seven players play two seven-minute halves of rugby on the same size pitch. The team competes in the annual World Rugby Sevens Series as well as the Olympic Games and European Games.

Ciaran shares his personal passion for the sport, whilst also giving an insight into the vast amount of analysis and data available to coaches in sports, and how it can help influence decisions about gameplay, player performance and health.

Tune in to this fascinating episode to learn more about how data is driving GB7s performance in Rugby, as well as playing a crucial role in making the sport safer for future generations.

Want to learn more about how to radically transform your company through the power of operations? Then don't miss the following episodes and hear more fascinating insights from other leaders in the field of Operations about how they have overcome challenges to drive productivity and boost performance at their enterprises. You can listen and subscribe to ‘Ops Game Changers’ on your preferred podcast platform and also on our YouTube channel, AOTv. Up your Ops game!

 

Want to learn more about how to radically transform your company through the power of operations? Then don't miss the following episodes and hear more fascinating insights from other leaders in the field of Operations about how they have overcome challenges to drive productivity and boost performance at their enterprises. You can listen and subscribe to ‘Ops Game Changers’ on your preferred podcast platform and also on our YouTube channel, AOTv.

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