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Data may be the new oil, but it’s also sucking money out of local companies who, just like their global counterparts, are paying a high cost for data mismanagement.

While that’s not exactly unexpected news, a new report actually puts some figures on that cost claiming that on average it's around US$2 million a year thanks to missed opportunities, lost revenue and increased operating costs caused by data challenges.

But as we discovered this week, with over $2 returned for every dollar invested, it's a problem worth fixing.

In other news this week:

  • AI’s power to do social good
  • Digital competency (or lack of) holding business back
  • Blockchain fatigue hits home
  • Invenco pumps new boss for growth

Enjoy the read,

Heather Wright
Editor
editor@istart.co.nz

 

BIG DATA

The real cost of data mismanagement

Sloppy data management continues to hinder productivity and profitability. So what’s to be done?...

 
Data mismanagement

Yes, we get it: The age of big data offers grand opportunities.

“It’s important to take a long-range view of data as it moves from ‘cradle to grave’ and understand how each stage in its lifecycle can result in siloed, non-integrated processes.”​

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ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Google’s US$25m AI for social good boost

AI ethics is off the agenda, but Google digs deep for AI fund…

 
Google #AI funding

An Australian AI-driven suicide monitoring project has garnered US$1.2 million from Google as part of the tech giant’s push for AI for social good.

40 percent of the applications came from organisations with no previous AI experience.​

[Read more]

 
 

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DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION

Digital competency concerns plaguing business

But is it just a sign we’re winning in the DX game?…

 
Digital competency

DX may have gone from novelty to norm, but we’re still struggling with digital competency and it’s holding business back the Economist Intelligence Unit says.

57 percent of the high performers category saw a need to improve across all digital competencies​.

[Read more]

 

BLOCKCHAIN

Blockchain fatigue hits 90 percent of supply chain projects

Still a solution looking for a problem…

 
Blockchain fatigue

Ninety percent of blockchain-based supply chain projects are in troubled waters because they can’t find suitable use cases for the technology according to Gartner.

Companies are forced to run multiple development pilots using trial and error to find ones that might provide value.​

[Read more]

 
 

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DISRUPTION

Self-service payment provider eyes further growth under new boss

As Gavin Lennox steps down and John Scott takes on CEO role, company eyes AU market…

 
Ivenco new CEO John Scott

Relentless requirement to improve payments security driving strong growth globally for NZ outdoor self-service payments solution provider Invenco.

This environment is always being driven by a relentless requirement to improve security.​

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