In Case You Missed It April 2024 Recap
This is the Three Data Point Thursday, making your business smarter with data & AI.
This special in-between issue serves as a recap of the last editions and more of my writing. It features a few quotes from each piece so you can get a feel for them and quickly jump around the Three Data Point Thursday universe.
Enjoy!
Dissecting What Makes a Data Strategy Fail: Fluff, Challenges, and Objectives
Unfortunately, bad data strategies are everywhere. Sometimes, I find it hard to find examples of good ones! Most data startups start out with a bad strategy. Almost every single internal data initiative I read is bad.
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The good news: You can learn how to spot bad data strategies. So what I’ll do in this article is to help you first of all understand how Rumelts concept of bad strategy extends to into the data world. Then we’ll start to spot a few in the wild to get you some practice!
12 Memes Of What I Learned About Navigating The Data & AI Space Of Tomorrow
If I build a house, I need to get an architect, he’s an expert, can analyze the surroundings, the ground, and, using good practices, come up with a great plan that will build a house lasting 100 years.
The catch? In exponentially fast-moving fields like data, there is little space for simple and complicated domains. We’re inside the complex, and almost always, there is no best practice. There is only one way to find out what you should do: That’s by acting first.
Cybercrime vs. Cybersecurity: A $10 Trillion Battlefield - And DarkTrace Is In The Middle Of It
While experts value the cybersecurity market roughly equal to the AI market and 10x the VR market, they miss the potential that already exists today. While AI gains still have to be realized, the damage to the economy is being done as you read this article.
There’s only one thing left to do to unleash this huge business opportunity: democratize cybersecurity. That’s exactly what one of the only Cambridge-based (and UK-based) unicorn companies is doing—and it’s called DarkTrace, led by Poppy Gustafsson.
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