What is Quantitative Intuition and it can help | Why You Can’t Predict the 2022 Soccer World Cup winner | Everybody can complicate but very few can simplify | How To Evaluate Technology Right… I can’t really start this week without pointing to a few resources that come at the…

Why Chief data officers don’t stay in their roles long, the State of AI by Deloitte and best practices for Data Stack Adoption. This week, I have the opportunity to visit Sydney for Gartner’s Data Analytics Summit and Google Cloud’s Leaders Event (a local version of Google Next!). Sydney was…

A Special Google Next 2022 | Why Your Company Needs Data-Product Managers | and…the problem with communication is…. In his talk about using Data Governance as an accelerator to innovation, Ben Clinch, Principal Enterprise Architect at British Telecom, provides guidance on how to think about Data Governance, Data Management and…

3 Principles all data products share | How To Get Value From Data | Data Journeys from Vodafone, Lufthansa, CNA Insurance, Deutsche Bank, Snap, Wizard and more! 1 — Customers Galore! Deutsche Bank, Snap Inc. and Wizard: My Customer Of The Week award goes to 4 amazing leaders! Deutsche Bank’s Scott Condit, Snap…

How Does a Data Product REALLY work | What’s the BEST Way To Get MORE Value from Data | Why is the average CDO tenure only 18 months 1 — How Does a Data Product REALLY work? Another #Masterpiece by Eric Broda who breaks it all down for us. More in comments but highlights are: Data Product =…

Vodafone, Crux & Kohl’s data prowess | Michelin and H&M share their Data Mesh learnings | The Data Engineering Summit Digest | A Ninety-Day Plan to Build a Data and Digital Strategy. | What’s on the CIO Agenda?!…and they call me Merno… What a busy month July was! It started…

2022 Cloud Salary Survey, The Data Management <> Data Governance Convergence?!…and How To Create Compelling Customer Experiences with Data and AI. Cartoon of the Week Lots of great success stories this week from Renault to Accenture, The State of Hawaï, MrCooper, Unifiedpost Group and Workday! I also featured a great piece from MIT…

and other lessons from Data Leaders…. The concept of the Data Ecosystem is starting to take off. Don’t get caught in vendorspeak though! Learn first from customers’ best practices who have already built a financially responsible, scalable and open data ecosystem so you too can innovate with Data! …