EP 43: The Outsider's Advantage: ...
EP 43: The Outsider's Advantage: How Diverse Perspectives Unlock Enterprise AI Success

Data Science With Sam by Soumava Dey

Episode notes

McKinsey says 88% of organizations are using AI. Only 6% are getting real value. Sumaiya Shrabony argues the gap isn't technical - it's trust. And the people best equipped to see that barrier are almost never in the room when AI rollout strategy gets written.

Sumaiya is Technical Program Manager and Data Infrastructure Lead at the University of Colorado Denver, managing 200 data pipelines across a 530-user analytics environment. She came to the US from Bangladesh at 19 and learned every institutional system from the outside - and built DataReady, a four-agent AI readiness audit tool, along the way.

IN THIS EPISODE:

▪  Why institutional trust — not technology, data, or budget — predicts whether an AI tool actually gets used

▪  The McKinsey 88%/6% gap explained: deploying a tool isn't adoption, it's a gym membe ... 

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