Data is the new oil / water / plutonium [delete as appropriate]

Ben Thompson, Ellen Fearnley and Jade Gamlin want to know if data is the new oil, the new water, the new electricity, the new plutonium, or the new something else entirely? There’s also talk of why the chief data officer might be the new potato chip and why the old leg is definitely the new arm. I may have made these last two up.

Key discussion points include:

Why data can’t be the new oil

Why data could be the new water

Why data might be the new electricity

Why data is definitely the new plutonium

Let us know what you think in the comments or email [email protected]

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Resources mentioned in this episode

Dunnhumby – the wizard from the Tesco’s data mountain [Link]

Harvard Business Review: Only 3% of Companies’ Data Meets Basic Quality Standards [Link]

The Data & Analytics summit [Link]

Spider-man [Link]

Only 4% of iOS users in US are opting in to ad tracking, report says [Link]

Meet the Boss roundtables [Link]

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