Summary of Trends
Achieving the best, most satisfying results…
It’s little wonder that organizations today aspire to thrive on data. Data powers superior customer experiences, highly tuned operations, and smart, self-optimizing services. Data provides resilience, predictability, and effectiveness, but also enables organizations to achieve their sustainability ambitions. Does this mean that data activation should be at the heart of all trends?
Data Sharing is Caring
Participating, collaborating, or even leading in data ecosystems gets more value out of data – creating new connected products, services, and experiences, boosting enterprise performance, and contributing to a better society. So, share the message! What’s not to like?
Power to the People
A growing scarcity of specialized skills, and the need to activate data as close to the business as possible – plus powerful AI and automation tools – are all driving an unstoppable self-service data revolution, empowering more people than ever with data. Power to the people!
Data Apart Together
A federated, actively collaborating ‘mesh’ of data producers and data consumers – owned and governed by the business domains themselves – brings data as close as possible to where it is picked up and used. This derives more value from data at required times, on demand.
Creative Machine
It turns out that generative, creative AI systems have the power to produce increasingly spectacular results in areas as diverse as images, video, audio, text, art, products, medicines, and more. When executed well, AI can become a powerful, inclusive technology – who knew?
What's New?
Net Ø Data
Everyone’s talking about zero. It’s fast become the magic number – but it doesn’t just relate to the reduction of more obvious carbon-intensive activities. Did you know that your data needs to be sustainable too?
Yes, data is a significant lever in accelerating the journey towards net-zero: increasing visibility of baseline emissions and identifying emissions hotspots, improving existing business processes by streamlining carbon-intensive activities, and predicting and prescribing business outcomes to drive net-zero performance. But collecting, storing, accessing, and utilizing data comes with its own sustainability price tag too.
Businesses, therefore, need to become smart about their data. It all starts with understanding the data they have, its environmental impact, and then getting rid of data that is not needed. Reducing data waste has a positive impact on the organizational carbon footprint, but also increases the overall level of data mastery. It’s a matter of being smarter about what data is really needed, being mindful of data waste, and realizing that ‘big’ data is not always ‘better’ data. That’s right: the battle against data waste is on.