Why Isn’t Your Company 100-Percent Data-Driven?
Today’s most successful companies share a core belief — that all decisions should be data-driven. And look at the results — Tesla, Amazon, and Netflix are far more valuable than their older competitors like GM, Walmart, and CBS. So, if all companies should share the mission to become data-driven, why are so many struggling to get there?
The problem is that data production has exploded due to the proliferation of sensors, IoT, mobile computing, and the fact that more parts of your business want access to fresh data to drive your increasing appetite to innovate faster. CEOs look to their CIOs as the data service executive — critical for speeding innovation, making better and faster decisions across the company, and delivering shareholder value. However, that doesn’t mean IT will get more resources. In fact, IT’s data integration project backlogs are growing far faster than budgets. It’s time to ask why isn’t your company 100 percent data-driven and what are the proven ways to be successful given these intense challenges? https://goo.gl/SezZpN #DataIntegration #ML
Brittleness, Murphy’s Law, and single-impetus failures
In my initial post on brittleness I suggested that a typical process is: Build something brittle. Strengthen it over time. In many engineering scenarios, a fuller description could be: Design…
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