Is “dealing with data” oriented toward seeking opportunities or avoiding risk in your organization?
FedEx and Microsoft provide an example of the former, tying up to bring data-driven services for supply chain management to market. “Fedex Surround” was created by making a deal to jointly marshal data assets and analytics capabilities..
On the flipside, lately we spoke with an IT executive for whom data is more like “a big headache” than “the new oil.” In the absence of a company data strategy, he said: “I generate one terabyte of data every day. And I don’t know what to do with this. So every month, I throw this away, I just delete it.”
