How Can Insights Partner Better with Data and Analytics with Michelle Gansle

Insights & Innovators Podcast from MRII · Mar 5, 2026 · 37m

If insights teams don’t become best buddies with data science and AI, they risk getting sidelined. In this episode, host Nick Graham, Founder of Vertemis, is joined by Michelle Gansle, former Chief Data & Analytics Officer, McDonald’s, to talk about why insights needs to partner better with data and analytics instead of competing for control, budget, or credit. They discuss how big data created silos, why teams still rarely collaborate without being forced to, and how bringing consumer insights, business insights, and data science together early can create “one plus one equals three”…