Solid at the core, flexible at the edge

Entering this chapter, you already know a lot about our story of building a data-driven approach and the different phases we have been through, including understanding the ownership of data, addressing critical and timely business needs, completing an inventory of all the data-bound processes, and building a global catalog of data services and data capabilities. You know how we centralized at first so that we could federate consistently shortly after, using data operations as the driver for informative long-term decisions, building and sustaining the unique data management Intellectual Property (IP), and much more.

Intuitively, the team always hit the right spot with our focus and our offering. By adhering to business relevance as the main driver and realistically weighing our capacity and capabilities, we smoothly navigated and addressed several critical data challenges at the company. We learned how to become change agents, put leadership...