Catalog & Cocktails: The Honest, No-BS Data Podcast
Oct 16, 2026 · 51 min · 12 segments
Mohammed Aaser, former chief data officer at McKinsey and former chief data strategy officer at Domo, recently visited Juan and shared his framework on talent in the AI era. It was incredibly…
Juan SequedaHostSo Juan, there's probably two or three major kind of points, right? The first is, if we think about what's happening in the AI first world, um, automation is, is happening at scale.
And so you and I, we've talked about this before, but I don't know if it's ever come up in the podcast, is that we're moving from historically humans have spent so much of their time on, quote-unquote, the assembly line.
And we have to move now from the assembly line to what I call the innovation engine.
And, um, I, I can go deeper on it, but before we get th- like I think we have to start with that context because talent is, I think, the key differentiator.
And the talent gap or the talent opportunity, I think is substantial and, and it's gonna be one of the key ingredients of success.
So, so where should I start, Tim and Juan? Like should I, should I go into the, to, to the innovation engine? Should I go right into the framework? Like w- w- w- you know, I wanna make sure I'm on the framework.
So Juan, there's probably two or three major kind of points, right? The first is, if we think about what's happening in the AI first world, um, automation is, is happening at scale.
And so you and I, we've talked about this before, but I don't know if it's ever come up in the podcast, is that we're moving from historically humans have spent so much of their time on, quote-unquote, the assembly line.
And we have to move now from the assembly line to what I call the innovation engine.
And, um, I, I can go deeper on it, but before we get th- like I think we have to start with that context because talent is, I think, the key differentiator.
And the talent gap or the talent opportunity, I think is substantial and, and it's gonna be one of the key ingredients of success.
So, so where should I start, Tim and Juan? Like should I, should I go into the, to, to the innovation engine? Should I go right into the framework? Like w- w- w- you know, I wanna make sure I'm on the framework.
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