SAN FRANCISCO — Since joining The Rockefeller Foundation in September, Tariq Khokhar, managing director and senior data scientist, has started with relatively easy changes.
“The truth that folks working on innovation don't like to share much is [that] often the most impactful innovation work is the least glamorous,” he said. “You need to balance doing the unglamorous stuff with the shiny stuff.”
Khokhar said he advises new innovation leads to start with easy wins, such as using predictive analytics to spot trends in a large batch of grant proposals, in order to demonstrate the value of data and technology and pave the way for bigger investments.