In Episode 20, of Season 4, of Driven by Data: The Podcast, Kyle Winterbottom is joined by Anthony Cosgrove, Co-Founder at Harbr, where they discuss how data sharing is improving the data consumer experience, which includes;
- Building a data platform in response to huge regulatory fines
- Creating a business that exists to solve the challenges he had personally faced doing the job
- Raising $50m to build Harbr
- The three key use cases that people use the platform for
- The challenges of data sharing and the implication on data democratisation
- Why the consumer user journey is often missing
- The importance of scalability and reusability
- The lack of empathy between the people creating data assets and the people using them
- The balancing act of value and control
- The journey of data products, data as a product, product management and data mesh
- Why data isn’t special - product management should be applied
- Why language is important!
- Why the number one challenge for CDO’s is complexity
- Why you have to cross boundaries to get value from data
- Why democratisation requires diversity, flexibility and choice
- Why value comes from the user and the use case
