Sleepwalking into Obsolescence

Data teams are busier than ever. Each one I speak to tells me about their latest initiative—whether it's reducing Snowflake spend, implementing new tools, or embarking on an epic quest to build their company's first metric tree.

I have the privilege of speaking with many data teams, and I'm consistently impressed by their energy and dedication to improving their work and helping their businesses.

But despite all this effort, I'm increasingly concerned that this work isn't cutting through where it truly matters.

We aren’t delivering

One of the things that really shocked me recently was aHarvard Business Review surveyof Fortune 1000 business that said 59.5% of executives reported their companies were driving innovation with data, compared with 59.5% four years ago.

I have the privilege of speaking with many data teams, and I'm consistently impressed by their energy and dedication to improving their work and helping their businesses.

But despite all this effort, I'm increasingly concerned that this work isn't cutting through where it truly matters.