Posted in Change management, Data Leadership, Immigration, Inclusion, Society

Why managers should drink coffee: A Military Veteran’s take on change management

Neil Herzog-Gilroy is a former British Army Military Intelligence Operator. He draws on 20 plus years of experience of working with various Intelligence and Law Enforcement Agencies around the world to bring us some food for thought on how to manage change in fast paced environments where people are the most important resource.

Posted in Business, Data Leadership, Data strategy, Hiring, Strategy

Bridging the gap between data and money

This article was co-authored by Elizabeth Press and Peter Schroeter Data is a top priority on almost…

Posted in Business, Data as an asset, Data Leadership, Data strategy, Finance

Data only has financial value if it can be monetized – An interview with Michael Guthammar

Having no physical form, data is an intangible asset. Data is often a contributory asset as well, its value being realized via the ability to generate profit through, for example, insight used in decision making or algorithmic-product such as a recommendation engine. Certain methods and considerations are required when valuing data.

Posted in Data governance, Data Leadership, Data politics, Data privacy, Deutsch

Die Interoperabilität von Daten als Voraussetzung für Innovation im Gesundheitswesen – Ein Gespräch mit Jörg Godau

Startups im Gesundheitswesen wie doctorly sehen die Chance, mit SaaS-Plattformen, die auf offenen Standards im Gesundheitswesen basieren, das Rad neu zu erfinden. Das etablierte Gesundheitssystem basiert auf einer fragmentierten Landschaft von Softwareanbietern und Datenlösungen. Dateninteroperabilität bietet die Chance, Innovationen im Gesundheitswesen in Deutschland und darüber hinaus zu ermöglichen.

Posted in Data governance, Data Leadership, Data politics, Data privacy

Data interoperability is a precondition for healthcare innovation – An interview with Jörg (Jack) Godau

Healthtech startups such as doctorly and others see the opportunity to reinvent the wheel with SaaS platforms based on open standards in healthcare. The incumbent healthcare system is based on a fragmented landscape of software providers and data solutions. Data interoperability presents an opportunity to unblock innovation in healthcare in Germany and beyond.

Posted in Data governance, Data Leadership, Data quality, Data strategy, Technical debt

Tech debt sloth breeds a culture of sloppy operations – An interview with Daniele Marmiroli, PhD

Tech debt is often unavoidable in most early stage startups. Not fixing the tech debt as a company gets traction and scales is more of a problem than the original creation of the tech debt. Turning a blind eye to tech debt has implications beyond the stack and creates an unstructured and sloppy culture.

Posted in Data governance, Data Leadership, Data quality, Data strategy

Data governance starts at both the C-Suite and metadata level of your organization- An interview with Laurent Dresse

Facilitating the interface between IT and business is data governance, which is filled with opportunity. There is no specific career path into data governance, but the ability to understand metadata and contextualize organizational insights to executives holds much opportunity.

Posted in Data Leadership, Data strategy, Deutsch

Aufbau des ersten Data Teams in ihrem Unternehmen

Ist Business Intelligence ein Luxus? Daten – richtig gemacht – sind weder billig noch einfach. Die meisten Unternehmen warten, bis sie eine gewisse Größe erreicht haben, bevor sie in eine interne Datenkompetenz investieren. Ein Greenfield-Projekt, der erste Aufbau einer internen Datenfunktion, ist ein wichtiger erster Schritt auf dem Weg eines Unternehmens zur Datenreife. Vor der Einrichtung einer internen Datenfunktion kann ein Unternehmen als Daten unreif gelten, unabhängig davon, wer die Daten nutzt oder wie lange das Unternehmen bereits besteht.

Posted in Data governance, Data Leadership, Data quality, Data strategy, Strategy

The co-dependence between data governance and growth – An interview with Irina Nikiforova

Irinia Nikiforova explains what data governance is and why it is essential for any business that not only wants to survive, but use insights from data or data-driven products to drive growth.

Posted in AI Strategy, Data Leadership, Data science, Data strategy, DataOps

Beyond the algorithm, the realities of operationalizing AI – A podcast interview with Elizabeth Press

The AI mystique might be the biggest obstacle to AI adoption. The artisanal data scientist who works on an alchemy of code output the magical algorithm impedes discussion on what is needed to commercialize and scale AI solutions. AI needs to be treated like a product and an item to be manufactured and scaled on an industrial level.