💬 “Data is a raw material. And like any raw material, it has no value until you process it. Most companies collect data. Very few actually extract from it.” – Prof. Maurizio Poli, 33 years at SDA Bocconi School of Management
🎙️ Today on LearnShift:
A Bocconi graduate who planned to leave academia the day he finished his degree. A young assistant writing FORTRAN and COBOL when everyone else was doing PowerPoints. A professor who said yes to Sofia, Warsaw, Copenhagen, Mumbai, Los Angeles – and never stopped. A consultant, a company founder, a board chairman, all while teaching 200+ executives a year. Now: one of SDA Bocconi’s most awarded professors. And still the sharpest voice in the room on why most AI projects quietly fail.
Maurizio’s 5 insights you won’t hear anywhere else:
1️⃣ Data culture comes before data science, always. Without it, you’re building on sand.
2️⃣ The raw material problem: why collecting data and using data are two completely different disciplines
3️⃣ AI lowers the barrier to running a model. It doesn’t lower the cost of running it wrong.
4️⃣ Three technological revolutions, one lesson, adapt before the comfort zone closes around you
5️⃣ Society forgives human error. It prosecutes machine error. That asymmetry shapes every AI decision being made right now.
💬 “The best decision I ever made without data? I married my wife.
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