Sports Analytics: The NFL Connects with Fans
The National Football League’s chief information officer discusses the organization’s customer-focused approach to big data and analytics.
Michelle McKenna-Doyle (NFL), interviewed by Michael Fitzgerald
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In a conversation with MIT Sloan Management Review’s Michael Fitzgerald, Michelle McKenna-Doyle, the NFL’s senior vice president and first-ever CIO, discusses the organization’s customer-focused approach to big data and analytics, and hear how the NFL works to make their employees comfortable with their own data sets.
McKenna-Doyle discusses new technologies for tracking player performance, satisfying fans’ demands for data and the challenges of effecting major technology change in a far-flung and decentralized organization.
In This Video
- Being a CIO in a Place That’s Never Had One (00:40)
- The NFL Tackles a New Kind of Analytics (04:00)
- Analytics in Action (11:42)
- Building the Case for Analytics (15:28)
- NFL Data Technology (18:48)
- What Can Other Businesses Learn from the NFL? (28:26)