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PODCAST | AI That Works – Lessons from Failure with Saint-Gobain’s Global CDAO Benoit Lepetit
What does it really take to embed AI in a 350-year-old global enterprise? In this episode, we close out our three-part series with Benoit Lepetit, Group Chief Data & Analytics Officer at Saint-Gobain, in conversation with Julian Schirmer, Co-Founder of OAO.
Lepetit gets candid about:
🔷Why embracing failure is essential to innovation
🔷How Saint-Gobain restructured 150+ data professionals into business-aligned service lines
🔷The critical role of translators in bridging data science and business outcomes
🔷Why perfection is the enemy of progress in AI
🔷The mindset shift from POCs to…
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