I work at a place where data quality is not on anyone’s radar. We have a reporting team in our group so we do our best where we can, but combining any datasets with other groups (like marketing & sales) is next to impossible as each team is silo’d and do things their own way - think free-form text fields to tag content…
How can I politely and succinctly say the above? Also, anyone else in a similar boat?
Implementation of AI requires strong unified data governance and data hygiene to produce company wide strategic solutions. The current company posture instead is focused on tactical level data collection and analysis which does not lend itself to consumption in relevant possible cross-department opportunities.
They’re not wanting to work better, they just want to be able to say they “use AI”.
Get them an estimate of how much it would be to give everyone Copilot for Business licenses and they will start talking about the business having other priorities.
www.goblin.tools is a godsend for this type of stuff.
Here’s what it put out using the “Formalizer” tool set to “More professional”:
Our leadership team primarily consists of individuals with extensive experience, but there appears to be a gap in understanding contemporary data practices. This challenge makes it difficult to fully leverage the potential of AI in our operations.
Why would you even bother?
