Boardroom Discussions - Growth Innovation Powered by Analytics
At the fourth session of the fourth generation of the Boardroom Discussions: Digital Transformation from CEO Perspective program, the keynote speaker was Mr. Burak Kırcalı, Principal Business Solutions Manager, Business Value, SAS EMEA.
Demonstrating significant business impact and scaling up challenges of innovations require a new corporate wide capability development through a change management program to change the way teams operate.
Analytics platforms accelerate this change management by turning highly technical capabilities into insightful business capabilities for everyone in the corporations.
Business leaders could hear more on the following 6 topics during the session:
- Financial value optimization for shareholders by transforming into a portfolio ecosystem,
- Cross industry insight is a foundation to emphatize and define customer problems,
- Innovation is a dual transformation that creates the new platforms and optimizes the core businesses,
- Innovation use cases need to be a portfolio business ecosystem with a change program,
- Growth innovation requires corporate strategy, R&D, and IT teams to converge for growth,
- Analytics Center of Excellence serves as an open innovation platform for portfolio teams.
Short summary of Mr. Kırcalı's presentation is avaliable on the link.
Growth Innovation Powered by Analytics
Keynote Speaker: Burak Kırcalı, Principal Business Solutions Manager, Business Value, SAS EMEA Burak has 27 years of professional experience including business strategy, new business models, advanced analytics, service design and delivery, innovation, customer management and program management. His industry experience includes financial services, retail, electronics, smart cities and consumer products. Burak has combined global advisory, sales and delivery roles at SAS, EY and IBM in different countries such as Brazil, Japan, Finland, UK, North America, China, India, Bahrain, Qatar and Turkey. Burak has B.Sc. in Computer Engineering at Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey.