FIMA Europe 2025

2025

London

Systems Thinking and Sustainable Data Practices

Calling all CDAOs in Financial Services!

Access original thinking and new ideas to implement today from Simone Steel, Former Chief Data and Analytics Officer, Nationwide.

Simone offers insights into Systems Thinking and Sustainable Data Practices: “At FIMA in London this November I will be talking about how data leaders can get the most out of their efforts by embracing the fact that large organisations are complex adaptive systems. To influence the outcome of the system, we must understand the agents (people) and their interactions (processes, systems, policies, and other unspoken norms). Implementing new technologies and systems of work often produce underwhelming results - despite some successes (we always shout about those!), the experience from the trenches is somewhat painful. The data leader has other options that don't look like either a "test lab" or a "multi-year transformation".


Calling all CDAOs in Financial Services! Access original thinking and new ideas to implement today from Simone Steel, Former Chief Data and Analytics Officer, Nationwide.

Simone offers insights into Systems Thinking and Sustainable Data Practices: “At FIMA in London this November I will be talking about how data leaders can get the most out of their efforts by embracing the fact that large organisations are complex adaptive systems. To influence the outcome of the system, we must understand the agents (people) and their interactions (processes, systems, policies, and other unspoken norms). Implementing new technologies and systems of work often produce underwhelming results - despite some successes (we always shout about those!), the experience from the trenches is somewhat painful. The data leader has other options that don't look like either a "test lab" or a "multi-year transformation".