Locally inspired, globally connected
A single sentence, “We make data business-ready,” quietly sparked a steady data revolution within our global company. This phrase wasn’t just an off-hand statement ; it became a powerful motto, a force that transformed our approach to data.
Something critical to note was that at the time, this simple sentence did more than unify and position the efforts of data practitioners within the company. It served as a universal replacement for what we now call a data strategy or data management strategy. Believe it or not, in those early stages of our journey toward a global, well-defined data approach, there was no centralized data strategy or data management strategy in place.
It may sound surprising, but it’s true.
We had a corporate data team, and they did work toward enabling global capabilities and defining a much-needed, multi-year so called “Horizon” model for data applications, yet the actual usage...
