Episode 40: Transforming Insight at Deliveroo
Episode 40 of the IMA's Transforming Insight podcast is now available. In this episode, James talks to Hayley Ward about her experience Transforming Insight at Deliveroo.
As Hayley approaches her two-year anniversary at Deliveroo, she looks back at what attracted her to join the company and what her initial approach to transforming the Insight culture was. Hayley wanted to bring a more rounded, qualitative understanding of customers and market Insights to the organisation.
Hayley discusses how she focused on building her Insight team with the right people to drive change and deliver value. Hayley also touches on the importance on having clear objectives and goals in place.
Hayley shares the benefits of using large-scale events designed for primary research, bringing in people from all parts of the company. We also hear about the success of her first “customer lab”.
Hayley also explores the opportunities that AI offers Insight teams, from streamlining processes to opening up more time for strategic thinking.
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Topics Discussed
- Looking closer at Hayley’s switch to Deliveroo (2:00)
- Transforming Insight culture to look more toward consumer understanding (4:48)
- The importance of clear objectives (10:40)
- Has Hayley’s view on the role of Insight changed? (14:27)
- The opportunities and threats of AI to Insight teams (18:48)
- One piece of advice Hayley would give Insight Team Leaders (25:15)
Highlights
- “Yes, there's a great customer concept there, but it's actually a really smart piece of Tech that has enabled the business to scale as quickly as it has. And it's not really until there's more competition in the market, and the business gets onto that sort of next phase of development, that there's suddenly an appreciation that a rather more structured, rounded approach to customer and market Insight is needed.”
- “Even though we had used OKRs, so every quarter would have our Objectives and Key Results. But that in itself didn't seem to be enough to equip team members to say “no”, whereas this sort of very succinct one-pager worked really well.”
- “You have to make sure that you are able to touch every part of the organisation, otherwise you're not really going to enable customer-centric thinking. And by that, I mean, quite often we do lots and lots of research and we speak to lots and lots of teams, but there's some teams that we probably never ever would speak to unless we organise some quite large-scale events. So, HR teams or Finance teams or even some of our engineers probably wouldn't get invited traditionally to our debrief. So, what I make sure that we do as part of our research plans now is have large-scale events. That means that everybody can come and listen to the customer.”
- “[Being] less precious as well, in that we don't own the customer in as much as we can democratize data and enable teams to dive into specific areas themselves. That’s not a threat to Insight functions. Actually, it's really helpful in terms of helping make sure that the customer data we captured is being used as much as possible”
- “I think the skill set just needs to kind of shift, but there'll definitely still be a role for people. And it comes back to what we do as researchers right, asking the right questions in the right ways, making sure that the right material is there.”
This is episode 40 of the Transforming Insight podcast.
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About James Wycherley, the author of Transforming Insight
James Wycherley was Director of Customer Insight and Analytics at Barclays from 2005 to 2015 when he became Chief Executive of the Insight Management Academy (IMA). A popular keynote speaker and acknowledged expert on Insight leadership, strategy, and communication, he is the author of the book Transforming Insight: the 42 secrets of successful corporate Insight teams, and over 35 IMA publications. He has provided thought leadership in the UK, Western Europe, the USA, Canada, Australia, India, and the Middle East, and regularly hosts the IMA’s Insight forums - London, Manchester, UK Online and US Online.
The Insight Management Academy is the world’s leading authority on transforming Insight teams.
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