Flashcards on Accelerating Data-Driven Transformation

Accelerating Data-Driven Transformation: BBVA's Success

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What was one performance metric focus for D&A when converting new work practices into reusable tools and techniques?

Both financial targets and long-term capability-building goals.

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Question: What was one performance metric focus for D&A when converting new work practices into reusable tools and techniques?

Answer: Both financial targets and long-term capability-building goals.

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Question: How were D&A data scientists funded in a way that influenced their focus?

Answer: They were only partially funded by business units, which justified focusing on strategic, long-term endeavors.

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Question: How many new tools and analytic solutions did D&A introduce into business units in 2016?

Answer: Eleven new tools and thirty-four new analytic solutions.

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Question: What development platform did D&A build to store and document code and serve as a platform for customer analytics?

Answer: A platform called Clarity.

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Question: Name two functions Clarity provided for data scientists.

Answer: Create, document, and publish models/algorithms that produced customer attributes and metrics; allow users to explore data models, find existing solut

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Question: What platform did D&A create to support asynchronous knowledge sharing among graduates of its data science training programs?

Answer: A community of practice (CoP) platform.

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Question: What initiative moved BBVA data from business unit silos to enterprise data platforms, and what was its outcome by 2017?

Answer: The 'data rainmaking' effort; by 2017 it had released thirty-four new data subject areas for enterprise usage.

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Question: By the end of 2017, how many data science projects had D&A launched and for how many business units?

Answer: More than forty data science projects for twenty-seven business units.

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Question: What commercial data product resulted from D&A work and what impact did it have on merchant margins in Spain?

Answer: Commerce360; users in Spain generated 25% higher margins than merchants not using the application.

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Question: What enterprise capabilities did D&A data scientists develop?

Answer: Technical platforms, shared data sets, and a collection of machine learning algorithms.