Navigating Data Diversity and User Base Challenges

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