5 minutes for 5 hours’ worth of reading — There are many approaches to measuring data and analytics maturity. I like the ones focusing on the business impact of data, rather than technicalities like technology used, data types processed, or levels of analytics deployed. Because in the end, outcomes are way more important than outputs. With this in mind…

5 minutes for 5 hours’ worth of reading — The topic of data monetisation is becoming increasingly hot. A week doesn’t go by for me without having at least one discussion on the matter. But the term is somewhat misleading and often misunderstood. Data monetisation is an umbrella term covering all different ways of turning data into economic value…

5 minutes for 5 hours’ worth of reading — Write programs that do one thing and do it well is one of the principles of Unix philosophy. It is based on a divide-and-conquer approach with the next principle being: write programs to work together. One of the articles in this week’s reading list is linking it to data products…

5 minutes for 5 hours’ worth of reading — Disposable technology is one of the concepts I promote regularly. Bill Schmarzo wrote in 2019: “Technology architecture should serve two basic purposes: Facilitate the capture, refinement, curation, sharing, management, governance and analysis of the company’s invaluable data assets. Build a technology architecture that doesn’t get in the way of point…

5 minutes for 5 hours’ worth of reading — Automation is a great way to improve efficiency of operations. Why keep performing a repetitive task when we can have a code taking care of it? Typically, the candidates for automation come from situations that take too long, occur too often, or are simply too frustrating. …

5 minutes for 5 hours’ worth of reading — The image above is from an article by Bain about how automation is rehumanising work by eliminating routine work. We see a lot of grey colour representing physical and information processing (like compiling data or maintaining records) in the chart. …

5 minutes for 5 hours’ worth of reading — We see a lot of images depicting the levels of analytics maturity — like the one above. These are often variations on The Gartner Analytics Continuum. Typically with an extra stage or helpful explanation added (such as the hindsight/insight/foresight labels this time). They also almost always come with a warning…

5 minutes for 5 hours’ worth of reading — Measuring the value of data is becoming a standard agenda on many of my conversations. It’s probably due to our focus on data due diligence and value creation that people often ask us about the value of data itself. My answer is typically anchored in three points: Data has economic…

5 minutes for 5 hours’ worth of reading — Data products, data as a product — these are big topics of the day. Data teams are getting inspiration from products, engineering, communication, marketing, or even whole companies. The role of data and analytics is not yet clearly defined — like for instance the role of finance or HR —…