Ming Tang
Chief Data and Analytics Officer
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Ming Tang is Chief Data and Analytics Officer at NHS England, where she leads the strategic development of data and analytics capabilities across the health service and supports system transformation through evidence-driven insights and digital tools. She also serves as Interim Chief Digital and Information Officer, providing leadership for digital strategy and delivery of transformation programmes.
Ming Tang is a passionate champion for improving the way data is used to provide business insights and deliver improvements to health and care. Over the course of the last 20 years she has built strong experience in managing and delivering large scale change involving the implementation of new operating models in complex and challenging environments, across industries including pharmaceuticals, consumer goods, retail and industrial goods.
Ming Tang is skilled in strategic transformation, operating model design, business process, performance improvement, business planning, analytical skills, and IT strategy.
A word from Ming
"I strongly believe the transformative power of data is to deliver insights at the right time to business users. Often this means building the data foundations that enables analytical teams to ‘join the dots’, triangulating data from disparate systems to draw together insights that are not often obvious. This can be at a strategic level using advanced analytical models and digital twins to create ‘what if’ scenarios to support strategic business optimisation decisions. At an operational level using AI to support process mining and improvements to core transactional processes that improve efficiency and effectiveness through data that supports the next best action. This means investing in data foundations is critical to success and without it – data cannot be a credible strategic partner for a step change in business performance."
Ming's inspirations
People who inspire me
I take inspiration from David Spiegelhalter and his book, ‘The Art of Uncertainty” – it’s an entertaining look at very human influences and perception of risks and how the mathematically derived probability can not tackle how we feel and react to uncertainty. This is important for data professionals, as all too often we can be content with the ‘right answer’ but we have not assessed or joined the dots on how the audience will react to the analysis. Building a strong narrative for the transformative value of data means that we (as data professionals) need to be more comfortable with the ‘Art’ as well as the ‘Science’ in making the case for change.
I also really admire Hannah Fry for her fantastic ability to communicate immensely complicated mathematical and scientific concepts into easy to understand but very engaging bite-sized explainers without patronising the audience.
Both these people are strong communicators, and data leadership sits best when we can explain the value and have the insights to support transformational change.
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