Organisations make key business decisions on the basis of what they know, and what they know is derived from analysing their data. To enable the best decisions, data has to be accurate and reliable. But there are still organisations out there with data silos, which by their very nature can be anything but accurate and reliable. These silos often contain duplicate, out-of-date, or otherwise dangerous data.
Added to this, maintaining two or more data sets on the same topic uses time and technology resources an organisation could more fruitfully channel into other work. It’s time to purge the data silos and stop them from ever coming back. Doing so, however, involves hunting for silos across the breadth of an organisation and implementing measures that address the cultural deficiencies that let silos flourish in the first place, all of which is easier said than done.
