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The most valuable asset your organisation ’ s data holds are not the collection and storage of that data , nor is it in the visualisation or reporting that the data generates
– it is in the ‘ business logic and business rules ’ that are built around the data .
functional expertise , are fundamental to making the right decisions at specific moments in time .
Or , inversely , reducing the risk of focusing on the wrong thing in order to minimise the reallocation of scarce resources on less productive work .
Visualise for example the quarterly Investor Relations slides as might be presented by the CEO and CFO to a company ’ s analysts and it is clear that the reams of data , graphs , plot and bar charts are either representing a message of success or hiding underperformance .
Notably , ESG is only going to double the amount of graphs and charts their quarterly slide decks require .
Put simply , leaders and company boards have more data available to their decision-making processes than ever before . Cloud , SaaS , customised software , mobile and IoT have made data generation easy , but often sitting across a distributed landscape and in different formats . Because of this , data integration has become complex and troublesome on the whole . As data professionals , we instinctively know that there are rich veins of business value waiting to be unlocked within the mass of data which will help the board and CEO deliver on their strategic and tactical imperatives .
Simply moving data into a centralised repository or the cloud is not the core solution to resolving those questions around data – nor is adding another reporting tool . Questions about the performance of respective teams will always outstrip the supply of datasets to answer them .
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