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S1Ep08. Leadership Intuition and Readiness with Jim McHugh of BigBear.ai Episode 8

S1Ep08. Leadership Intuition and Readiness with Jim McHugh of BigBear.ai

Jim McHugh is the Vice President of BigBear.ai and an IT leader with over 30 years of professional experience applying technology solutions to business challenges and federal data management. Jim has vast data modeling, data governance, business intelligence, predictive analytics, and data science expertise. Today, we discuss building and deploying technologies for everyday government use, leading by example, and issues and opportunities for optimization in the supply chain industry. Jim emphasizes the need for AI and ML, especially in the DOD, and the need to democratize data science and look at the opportunities that crowdsourcing allows. Finally, we dive deeper into intuition as a human asset and discuss the need for multigenerational intuition. It, how new generations will play a role in the future of data and how to draw them into the federal workforce.

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✅ Jim McHugh’s vast experience. 00:35
🤕 Many government agencies are not ready for AI and ML solutions. 04:09
😳 Real visionaries get frustrated and burned out and resign. 06:38
🚚 Supply chains are being rewritten. 07:44
👔 Not enough leaders are empowered. 11:58
👉 Supply management: a production, information, and financial flow. 13:10
🔧 AI and ML is not a panacea for decision-making; it is a tool that can help. 15:19
🕴️ Need to develop leadership intuition: relying too much on technology to make decisions. 18:50
🤔 Understanding the ramifications of a decision before you make it. 21:15
🤓 Can we capture all of that intuition? 24:15
👨‍🦳👨Multigenerational intuition: Get young people sitting alongside boomers. 25:31
💡 AI and ML are increasing confidence. 27:01
💻 Capturing the gut feel and information in boomers and putting it into the digital footprint. 27:59
🤝 Coaching and AI data as a perfect mix for the younger generations. 29:36
🦅 The driver of change is progress: we have to push forward to make sure the USA is safe. 32:11
😇 Our interaction with data is critical: democratize data science and crowdsourcing. 34:32
🧐 Your data source has to be trusted. 36:20
😎 The wisdom of the crowds: Gen Z's are actively involved in crowdsourcing and reviews. 38:43
🥳 A significant moment in the history of BigBear.ai. 41:27

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BigBear.ai:  https://bigbear.ai/

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✅ Mark Fedeli
Twitter: @markfedeli
 
🅰️ Andrew Churchill
Twitter: @FAChurchill
 
☑️ Courtney Hastings:
Twitter: @chatrhstrategic



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