Start by making decisions answerable and data dependable before equating a data strategy with model building.
What to look for
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Find the operational questions people cannot answer today.
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Identify manual data flows and inconsistent definitions.
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Connect specialist work to an owner who can put the result into use.
Keep in mind
The author calls it a parable, not a measured case study. It illustrates organizational failure modes rather than proving their frequency.
Try this next
Ask three departments for a decision they delayed because data was missing. Trace one answer back to its source systems and definitions.
Get the data templateNotes and exercises by Awesome CTO. The original work belongs to Erik Bernhardsson.