I think I’m responsible for data… am I?

It’s more times than I can count on one hand. A business or technology leader tells me they have a lot of good data they want to leverage. In the same breath, he/she tells me they have bad data! It does not take a data professional to see they can’t both be true if taken literally. But I get the underlying sentiment. Invariably, I find it reflects the lack of clarity about the true state of their data. In every single one of these cases, the conclusions from data assessment efforts have surprised them. Not so much because the assessment…...