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Data and Generative AI: A Window into Your Organisation’s Soul?

For the third consecutive year, HBR Analytics Services has researched contemporary data use, focusing on its applicability to generative AI. The report—“Scaling Generative AI for Value: Data Leader Agenda for 2025”—spans multiple industries and companies globally. It’s time as conversations have noticeably pivoted from abstract use cases and generative AI pilots to a desire to […]

Foster a Data-Sharing Culture

The Data Hoarding Trap Many organizations are guided by the adage “Knowledge is power.” Teams closely guard their data to maintain an internal competitive edge. But what if this mentality is holding your company back? Imagine your marketing team has gathered valuable data on customer preferences but fails to share that information with your product […]

Data Governance in the Age of Generative AI

The exponential growth of enterprise data presents unprecedented opportunities for innovation, yet many organizations struggle to capitalize on it due to inadequate data governance. A robust governance framework is crucial for future-proofing and maintaining competitiveness. Effective data governance rests on four pillars: Data visibility: Clarify available data assets to inform decision-making. Access control: Balance accessibility […]

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Data Lakes vs. Data Mesh: Navigating the Future of Organizational Data Strategies

For more than a decade, organizations have embraced data lakes to overcome the technical limitations of data warehouses and evolve into more data-centric entities. While many organizations have used data lakes to explore new data use cases and improve their data-driven approaches, others have found the promised benefits hard to achieve. As a result, the […]

2023 Year-End Blog Roundup

Happy holidays to everyone! During this time, I like to look back on the year in AWS Enterprise Strategy Blog posts to see what themes have emerged. This blog addresses the concerns and challenges voiced by executives during the Enterprise Strategy team’s approximately 1,500 annual meetings with AWS customers. Reflecting on these important topics reveals […]

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What’s top of mind for Chief Data Officers going into 2024?

One year ago we published our first research report on the role of Chief Data Officers (CDOs). The renowned Tom Davenport, in partnership with MIT Chief Data Officer and Information Quality Symposium (CDOIQ), was commissioned to conduct a global study of CDOs across industries, tenures, and stages of the data journey. At the time I […]