May 21, 2020
Robert Fink is on the leadership team at Palantir, where he has
helped shape their approach to product design and architecture. He
has also played major roles in ensuring the company stays focused
on the mission needs of customers today, and, through shaping
R&D, is helping ensure the company is better able to serve the
needs of future customers and future missions.
In his time at Palantir Robert has participated in several
responses to crisis situations where data solutions were needed
quickly in order to save lives and limit loss of property. He
captured many lessons learned from past responses to crisis
situations in a recent Medium post titled:
In crisis response, answer the simple questions first. The
lessons learned from this post is very relevant to the situation
many decision-makers are wrestling with right now so we sought out
time with Robert to join us on the OODAcast.
Topics we reviewed with Robert include:
- Doing business in a global corporation where most of the team
are operating out of their homes - Lessons learned from crisis response including disaster relief
work globally - Lessons learned from support to public health
- Use cases for data integration and analysis in public health,
including long-term research and informing operational
decisions - Privacy in a crisis
- Speed of delivery of solutions in a crisis (how can solutions
be fielded faster?) - What is data governance and what parts are still applicable in
a crisis? - What is meant by focusing on “simple questions first”
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