Tim Thompson-Rye: Data - advice firms' most valuable asset

Business gains, client gains

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Progeny's Tim Thompson-Rye shares his enthusiasm for data and explores the opportunities that leveraging this most valuable asset can bring...

Think about the most valuable asset in your company. A number of possibilities will probably spring to mind, but I'd argue that it's most likely to be your data. In a world of increased digitisation, data is the essential foundation of digital transformation. Without data, nothing digital can be achieved at any kind of scale. Data powers every process, every scaled experience we might want to create, and every interaction. This is also why personal data is so prized by cyber-criminals as an easily monetised commodity. We therefore must take our data seriously on all fronts. In so m...

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