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Four principles to balance personalisation and data protection

28 Apr 2020by Craig Suckling

Talk of contact tracing apps to tackle COVID-19 serves to highlight the difficult balance between using data to personalise services and robust data protection. Whether your organisation is involved in building these solutions or not, Craig Suckling of IAG Loyalty suggests there are four principles to keep you on the right side of your customers.

Is poor data quality holding your organisation back?

14 Apr 2020by Former Member

if there is limited trust in the data, should decisions be offloaded to an algorithm and other cutting-edge technologies? As organisations look to build up their capabilities and use of AI and machine learning, Clinton Hook of Experian argues for a renewed focus on their foundational component - good quality data.

The importance of data literacy in the workplace

11 Mar 2020by Former Member

Most businesses are managing an enormous amount of data. However, simply collecting data isn’t the same as understanding it. Roberto Sigona of Qlik explains why organisations need to improve their data literacy.

Leyre Murillo-Villa – "There is always a solution"

22 Jan 2020by David Reed

Leyre Murillo-Villar is chief data officer and data control lead at BNP Paribas. She is also a member of the Women in Data 20 in Data and Tech list. She told DataIQ about the need to close the gender gap and how data is at the heart of managing risk.

Delivering data and parcels in real time

29 Nov 2019by Toni Sekinah

Chris Render of Hermes the parcel delivery company is responsible for data infrastructure and data processing. He tells Toni Sekinah about the digital transformation his company is undertaking and how it is being supported by a data transformation.

Siemens and Anthony Nolan getting the most from analytics

21 Nov 2019by Toni Sekinah

Electronics giant Siemens and blood cancer charity Anthony Nolan are both improving their data practices with a self-service analytics platform. Toni Sekinah hears from Jon Cajacob and Franky Stephenson who say that self-serve analytics is making their organisations more efficient and more productive, and the charity data is no longer in a ’shack’.

Boomi and Diana integrating the data of digital fashion

20 Nov 2019by Toni Sekinah

Data integration platforms collect, sort and transform data so it can be used for other business needs within an organisation. Valentino Baraldo of Diana Ecommerce Corporation and Mike Kiersey of Boomi told Toni Sekinah what benefits Diana gets from using integration platform Boomi and the other capabilities it has.

Don’t just collect data, control it

28 Oct 2019by Lindsay McEwan

GDPR wasn’t the data apocalypse many anticipated, but it has changed how consumers view their data. For companies that respect this shift and learn how to orchestrate customer data effectively, there are rewards to be had, argues Tealium’s Lindsay McEwan.

DQM GRC: How to spot if your data dam has burst

23 Oct 2019by David Reed

High profile data breaches have put CISOs under the spotlight and emphasised the limitations of what conventional cyber-security can achieve. Alongside technology to prevent unauthorised access, you also need to be tracking where your data is ending up, as DQM GRC’s Peter Galdies explained to DataIQ.

AstraZeneca drives growth through data innovation

18 Oct 2019by Toni Sekinah

Andy McPhee of AstraZeneca manages a large team of data engineers working with almost all aspects of data within the pharmaceutical giant. He told Toni Sekinah the major data challenge his company was facing and the company-wide strategic initiative that has data at the heart of it.

Market Insight

New data, better businessIn Partnership with Barclays

This simple five-step guide summarises the attributes one needs to look out for when evaluating new data providers. As data becomes ever more important as a ...

Driving recovery with better data qualityIn Partnership with Royal Mail

The challenges that businesses have faced with their data and marketing look very similar, as many of the findings in this latest round of research highlight. S...

How to scale data science (when nobody else understands it)In Partnership with Domino Data Lab

For many companies, their investment in data science and their emphasis on making it a first-class corporate function have paid significant benefits. They’re ...

How to develop your data cultureIn Partnership with Tableau

We asked our 2021 DataIQ 100 Top Ten to share their views on how to develop a data culture in an organisation, how to build out data literacy and their ...

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