Real estate focuses on governance and value derivation from assets. The Marketplace facilitates value-driven transactions while maintaining order, quality, and trust throughout the ecosystem. BOTH must work TOGETHER.
Read More4 Perspectives to drive effective data translation
When driving data projects, you will encounter business stakeholder challenges that often go unspoken. This is not always because people hold back but because they don't fully know how to vocalize their constraints.
If they can't directly address their requirement, chances are we can't either. To hear others' speech, we start by asking questions from different perspectives.
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Countdown: Book Excerpt Chapter 3
Until an organization is willing to invest in its data capabilities, aligning data resources to answer complex business questions will be like riding a bicycle to chase a Formula One racer and never catching up. Scoping project opportunities well is about building enough trust to eventually scale resources. While a single project manager can accomplish some initiatives, most data projects require multi-disciplinary resources to execute.
Read MoreBridging the Gap: IT's Critical Role in the Data-Driven Enterprise
In his provocative 2003 Harvard Business Review article “IT Doesn't Matter,” Nicholas Carr argued that information technology (IT) had become a commodity, stripped of strategic advantage [1]. As a data translator working at the intersection of business, data, and IT teams, I find Carr's assertion not just misguided but potentially dangerous for organizations navigating today’s data-driven landscape. While Carr’s cautionary notes about overinvestment have merit, his core argument fundamentally misunderstands the evolving role of IT in modern enterprises.
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