Strategy meets data science when it comes to SME lending, with Frank Gerhard (McKinsey & Company)

“This is not a small change, and it doesn't affect isolated groups. This is not just an IT problem. This is not just a modelling problem. This is not something the business can solve on its own. This really requires board attention to actually bring together those teams and ensure that there is really cohesion across the organisation.” - Frank Gerhard, Solution Associate Partner and CTO at Risk Dynamics, part of McKinsey & Co.Gone are the days when senior business leaders could leave the data crunching to propellor-hat-wearing quants in a back room, now there’s a seat at the Boardroom Table for data and analytics, or at least there should be. In this episode, Frank and I speak about the strategic elevation of analytics and how innovations from just a year or two ago are already mere table stakes, but in particular, we talk about all of this in the context of SME lending where lenders are feeling them acutely.I first found Frank via his co-authorship of this article on “How banks can reimagine lending to small and medium-size enterprises” but we also reference this article on “Designing next-generation credit-decisioning models” which is worth a read, and has more insights we had time to fully explore.Frank is on LinkedIn and available via email, or for more insights from him and his colleagues, you can head over to https://www.riskdynamicsgroup.com/our-insights or https://www.mckinsey.com/Frank also mentions Quantam Black, AI by McKinsey’s - their work is at https://www.mckinsey.com/capabilities/quantumblack/how-we-help-clientsAndrew Ng's thoughts on great data versus big data: https://spectrum.ieee.org/andrew-ng-data-centric-aiYou can learn more about myself, Brendan le Grange, on my LinkedIn page (feel free to connect), my action-adventure novels are on Amazon, some versions even for free, and my work with ConfirmU and our gamified psychometric scores is at https://confirmu.com/ and on episode 24 of this very show https://www.howtolendmoneytostrangers.show/episodes/episode-24Oh, and if you’re in need of more banking podcasts, you can find related content at https://blog.feedspot.com/banking_podcasts/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.