Interview: The importance of building a data foundation | Computer Weekly
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On IT projects, we used to spend so much time wrestling with IT infrastructure. But eventually, things went into the cloud. All that IT infrastructure stuff got commoditised.
Things like data, pattern solving, and general problem solving and strategy still stay on the plate. It's easier to commoditise software and very easy, on some level, to commoditise infrastructure. But it's hard to commoditise data.
You can have a data strategy, but do you have a data culture? A recent survey from Morning Consult for Capital One found that only 35% of the 4,000 people polled believe their organisation has a strong data culture.
To a certain extent, a data culture is a proxy for discipline. Are you prioritising time for data management? Are you collecting good metadata?
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