Are you being served? Consumer duty and its impact on data

Compliance and regulation are part and parcel of working with data. Consumer duty has recently been reworked and businesses need to ensure they provide the best care for their customers.
NetApp and Aston Martin F1 – Driving data to the top

The volume of data required to be a world champion team in Formula 1 is staggering. NetApp, a partner of the Aston Martin F1 team invited Alex Roberts to see the data under the bonnet.
Assessing and promoting the value of data

Education and communication are essential to harness the optimum value of data and data professionals in an age where technical capabilities are being pushed to new frontiers.
Technophobia – The fear that data businesses should be scared of

Technophobia is a problem with many facets that vary between teams and organisations, so what can be done to address the problem without alienating staff?
CDO Challenges – Look a little closer… The essential skill of data visualisation

This edition of CDO Challenges delves into data visualisation. By mastering the art of data visualisation, data leaders can deliver hard-hitting pieces of evidence to non-data professionals in a way that is digestible and resonates with their aims.
Unlocking value at ITV with Data Mesh and Thoughtworks

ITV partnered with Thoughtworks to implement a data mesh approach in a reimagining of data use for content production, promotion, distribution and monetisation in a way that is scalable and shareable.
Tech investments ease the pressure of utilising data

With data being touted as the new oil and the rapid increase of data capture capabilities, businesses must invest in tech and tools to create a data-driven operation that extracts quality from data.
OS Select+Build – Data to order

Ordnance Survey’s new approach to distributing data showcases the scale of data use and prepares for a future of continued data hunger from users.
AI for BI – The inevitable and exciting future for data

The use of artificial intelligence for businesses has escalated dramatically in recent years and there is good reason for this trend. However, there are some caveats to bringing in a new AI tool without fully understanding its capabilities.
CDO Challenges – Ensuring data ethics

Data ethics: without it, data businesses cannot progress. This edition of CDO Challenges looks at how data professionals can ensure data ethics are installed and upheld in organisations.
Girls Into Coding – Addressing inequality in data and nurturing new talent

Girls Into Coding is a social enterprise determined to improve the gender imbalance in the tech space, challenge stereotypes and engage with underprivileged girls to develop new skills.
CDO Challenges – Nurturing a data culture

Cultivating and evolving a data culture in an organisation is key to success and transitioning to a data-led business. This edition of CDO Challenges discusses how CDOs can kick-start data culture.
Nine in ten companies lack data culture and organisation to facilitate growth

The implementation of digital tools has radically altered operational capabilities for businesses, but a data culture and organisational knowledge is needed to achieve peak growth.
CDO Challenges – How to start aligning data strategy with business objectives

This edition of CDO Challenges examines how CDOs can neatly connect the data strategy with wider business objectives.
Data breach risks – Poor data management at six in ten financial institutions

More than half of senior executives have stated that their UK-based financial organisation risks data breaches due to poor data management.
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Women in data – more needs to be done for STEM equality

While the number of women in STEM fields is growing, the number of women in senior positions is half that of men, and the solution starts with education.
CDO Challenges – How to become a data-driven business

CDOs are often faced with the task of making an organisation data driven. This issue of CDO Challenges will investigate how this can be done for a low-maturity business.
Skills in demand – Finance data skills gap becoming a worrying normality

Data knowledge in finance are highly sought after as the skills gap continues to grow compounding development and efficiency across the USA and UK.
Energy efficiency is not being prioritised by data centres in the UK

With energy prices rising and environmental aspirations becoming more prominent, UK organisations with multiple servers are still unlikely to prioritise data centre energy efficiency.