Not Just Data is an easy-to-read management novel that describes the story of a team building and then evolving a continuous enterprise data pipeline. What is a continuous enterprise data pipeline, you ask? Let’s work toward a definition: Continuous enterprise data is up-to-date enterprise data that is available on an as-needed, when-needed basis, reflecting the changing needs of data consumers.…
English is a wonderfully robust language, providing significant wiggle room for how terms are applied. This is particularly true of “data driven” and “data informed”, both of which have been thrown around a lot over the past few years. This leads to the questions: How are they different? and When should you apply each one? Here are my thoughts. Both…
A fundamental assumption with data-driven decision making is that your decision makers are capable of doing so. That’s a huge assumption.
A data-driven enterprise is one in which decision makers seek, and then consider relevant data when making their decisions.