In organisational terms this is a challenge: if you embed data science locally, how can you keep the data science knowledge up to date? Conversely, if you set up data science centrally, how do you prevent empire building? At De Nederlandsche Bank, we chose a hub-and-spoke system for this – stressing joint development.
Our data scientists work in a Data Science Hub, together with the spokes – which are the various divisions of De Nederlandsche Bank.