Encouraging organisation leaders, colleagues and stakeholders to adopt better approaches towards data can be a challenge – data is often seen as an irritant, not urgent, somebody else’s problem etc. Many also, incorrectly, think that “AI” (or some other clever
Deliver winning performance by tuning your data machine
A good way to understand the impact of poor data practices on your organisation is to imagine the approach to data gathering, storage and exploitation as a machine – a data machine. What does your data machine look like? How
Managing assets? Your team need AD4s!
If you are responsible for managing a portfolio of assets, then your team need AD4s to help them. What does the acronym AD4 mean? Well, it stands for Asset Data Dictionary Definition Document – quite a mouthful, hence the shorter
The value of data
It is time to consider ‘the value of data’ – a number of recent conversations (such as with Stuart Ravens and Martin Paver), an excellent recent article on Highways England’s data valuation and related events such as the emergence of a proposed
Two new data standards for all organisations
In February 2020, BSI released two new data related standards that should be considered by all organisations: BS 10102-1:2020 – Big data. Guidance on data-driven organizations BS 10102-2:2020 – Big data. Guidance on data-intensive projects Although the titles state ‘Big data’, this only
Does your data trust you?
A colleague of mine recently posted a very interesting blog titled Do you trust your data? This led me to think about the issues from the perspective of the data i.e. if I am a data set can I trust
Can creating surplus/profit by “sweating your assets” be made easier?
The social housing sector in the UK continues to operate in challenging times – the combination of a continued shortage of housing, reduction in grants from government and ageing asset stocks means that there needs to be a consistent drive
What does a data enabled organisation look like?
Many organisations use and manage data in ways that are less than ideal, however what does a data enabled organisation look like? This question was recently asked by one of our clients who wanted to find ways to visualise what
Are you a data hoarder?
How much data is enough data? This is a discussion often had within organisations where there are two broad groups: Gather only the data you know that you need – the minimalists Gather all the data you possibly can –
The Big Easter Data Hunt
As a child, the arrival of the Easter holidays was always an exciting time for me. The Easter Egg hunts were particularly exciting. Before the hunt I usually had an idea of where the eggs could be hiding but was