TAKEAWAY - The Void Between Data and Decisions with Pete Williams

About this episode

Pete Williams discusses the challenges of data leadership and the structural void between data and decision-making in organizations.

This is the takeaway episode with Pete Williams, an experienced data leader, who argues that organisations still make decisions along traditional vertical lines, while data sits in a horizontal layer that was never given real authority. Pete makes a compelling case for why fixing this structural void is the defining challenge for data leadership today. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

People in this episode

Guest: Pete Williams

Topics covered

• data leadership
• decision making
• organizational structure
• data authority
• vertical vs horizontal data

Keywords

• data
• decisions
• leadership
• organizations
• authority
• vertical
• horizontal

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