Decide where data and AI matter
Innovation
Imagine two companies making the same mistake. The first discovers it after three weeks. The second discovers it after three years. The mistake is identical. Yet one survives and the other may not. Why? Because mistakes have a peculiar property. They grow while nobody is looking at them. A product
Strategy
Every generation believes its defining technology changes the rules of business. Usually, it changes the tools. Today it's AI. Before that it was social media, mobile, the internet, and the personal computer. Each expanded what organizations could do. None changed what organizations ultimately depend on. Every business is
Value
Most data strategies fail for the same reason cities go bankrupt: they try to govern everything. Somewhere, a well-meaning data owner is responsible for 4,000 attributes. Each has a definition, lineage and quality score. The effort is impressive. The economics are less clear. Finance offers a useful clue.