<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Aleksei Ogarkov — Writing</title><description>Field notes on getting AI to the P&amp;L — operating-model design, causal measurement and governance, from 14 years building commercial-analytics systems.</description><link>https://datadrivengrowth.tech/blog/</link><language>en</language><atom:link href="https://datadrivengrowth.tech/rss.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>Bayesian MMM: a prior is not an identification strategy</title><link>https://datadrivengrowth.tech/blog/bayesian-mmm-causal-inference/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://datadrivengrowth.tech/blog/bayesian-mmm-causal-inference/</guid><description>Robyn and Meridian ship with causal language, but a prior only encodes belief. What identification takes, and what an auditable MMM shows a CFO.</description><pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>marketing mix modeling</category><category>causal measurement</category><category>commercial excellence</category></item><item><title>Clinic segmentation for pharma: size is not a segment</title><link>https://datadrivengrowth.tech/blog/clinic-account-segmentation/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://datadrivengrowth.tech/blog/clinic-account-segmentation/</guid><description>Pharma still tiers clinics by size. A census is not a clinic segmentation: segment on potential and decision structure; build the universe file first.</description><pubDate>Sun, 26 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>account-based segmentation</category><category>key account management</category><category>commercial excellence</category></item><item><title>Your next-best-action is optimizing applause, not prescriptions</title><link>https://datadrivengrowth.tech/blog/agentic-next-best-action/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://datadrivengrowth.tech/blog/agentic-next-best-action/</guid><description>Agentic next-best-action engines learn from what they can see: accepted suggestions, opens, clicks. Engagement is not incrementality. Fix the reward first.</description><pubDate>Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>next-best-action</category><category>omnichannel HCP engagement</category><category>commercial excellence</category></item><item><title>Governed AI clears procurement: trust is an inventory</title><link>https://datadrivengrowth.tech/blog/ai-governance-procurement/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://datadrivengrowth.tech/blog/ai-governance-procurement/</guid><description>AI governance is now a procurement gate. Buyers no longer accept an ethics charter; they want the register: inventory, data lineage, eval results, logs.</description><pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>AI governance</category><category>EU AI Act</category><category>commercial excellence</category></item><item><title>AI-first project management: when agents do the work</title><link>https://datadrivengrowth.tech/blog/ai-first-project-management/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://datadrivengrowth.tech/blog/ai-first-project-management/</guid><description>When AI agents do the work, output gets cheap and verification gets scarce. AI-first project management means redesigning the team around that shift.</description><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>AI agents</category><category>AI-first project management</category><category>operating model</category></item><item><title>The distance between a demo and production is an operating model</title><link>https://datadrivengrowth.tech/blog/design-to-code-with-ai/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://datadrivengrowth.tech/blog/design-to-code-with-ai/</guid><description>I built this site and a governed AI data-hub by hand. The gap from an AI demo to a shipped system is organizational, not technical — where pilots die.</description><pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>AI</category><category>operating model</category><category>commercial excellence</category></item><item><title>Measuring AI ROI: did it move the number, or the dashboard?</title><link>https://datadrivengrowth.tech/blog/measure-ai-roi-control-group/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://datadrivengrowth.tech/blog/measure-ai-roi-control-group/</guid><description>Two figures on AI&apos;s return can&apos;t both be true: 74% of execs report ROI, 95% of pilots show none. Measuring AI ROI honestly means measuring the number, not the dashboard.</description><pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>AI ROI</category><category>causal measurement</category><category>commercial excellence</category></item></channel></rss>