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No Code—No Problem: Breaking Silos and Empowering Teams with Bill Shube
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Kicking off Season 3 of Mining Your Own Business, Evan Wimpey sits down to chat with Bill Shube. A supply chain analytics expert with over 11 years at the LEGO Group, Bill is also the founder of Supply Chain Watchtower. Through his company Bill’s goal is helping small businesses effectively manage their inventory.
Grab a chair and tune in as he shares his story. Bill talks about how his team has successfully leveraged citizen development to gain actionable insights from data, saving thousands of hours and much more. Plus he shares how citizen development can impact on data tasks, governance, and scalability within an organization.
In this episode you will learn:
⛛ How citizen development can be used to empower business teams to play a more active role in data analytics
⛛ The need for governance initiatives to manage potential risk and ensure citizen developers stick to best practices
⛛ How no-code and low-code tools can complement existing systems, boosting collaboration rather than creating silos
⛛ Why a mindset change is crucial for all teams to be empowered to make the most of data
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💬 “That's what citizen development is about; it's empowering the average user.”
Featured in This Episode
Bill Shube, Founder, Supply Chain Watchtower
Bill Shube, founder of Supply Chain Watchtower (SCW), has over 11 years of experience in supply chain management and analytics at The LEGO Group, where he and his team have saved thousands of hours and spotted millions of dollars worth of planning errors through analytics automation.
His goal in founding SCW is to bring these big-business experiences and techniques to small and growing businesses, helping them understand their demand and supply. This empowers businesses to right-size inventories, avoid stock-outs and overages, and ultimately improve cash flow and profitability.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bill-shube/
Evan Wimpey, Director of Analytics Strategy, Elder Research
Company website: elderresearch.com
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/evan-wimpey
Chapters
00:00 Introduction
00:35 Talking about Bill’s experience with the LEGO Group and his company, Supply Chain Watchtower
01:48 Discussing Bill’s work in the supply chain
02:26 Sharing the team’s evolution to citizen developers
05:10 Talking about the challenges of siloed data
06:31 Breaking down what citizen development is and its benefits
08:52 Discussing how citizen development is implemented
12:28 Sharing the need for data governance
13:22 Talking about putting good practices in place
14:55 Discussing how user communities can foster collaboration
16:17 The importance of being on the same page
22:05 How citizen development can impact multiple areas of a business
25:06 Discussing how Bill’s team is using data tools to support daily operations
27:54 Talking about Bill’s dreams for the future
30:33 Wrapping up the show
Find more show notes, transcripts, & more episodes at:
https://www.elderresearch.com/resource/podcasts/
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