3 THE THEORY BEHIND GOVERNING DATA

Alison Holt

Back in 2015 I was part of a group of international subject matter experts working on governance standards. Together we recognised a need for international guidelines to assist organisations in assessing the value and risk of data use, and in developing and implementing a data strategy. As a group we saw huge benefits to organisations embracing the data boom.

We had just begun to see several innovative companies developing new data-enabled products and services to enhance the experiences of their customers, and new format companies (such as Uber and Airbnb) developing traditional infrastructure services with no traditional infrastructure. Instead, they built international services based on data ...

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