Summary
There is no doubt about the importance that data holds for organizations today to compete in the market. However, how we traditionally manage data has led to the construction of monolithic platforms unable to survive the complexity they generate.
Technological innovations have helped us solve many problems related to data management over time, but not the root causes of these problems. With each new generation of data platforms, the same issues have always resurfaced.
In this chapter, we saw how a paradigm shift in data management is necessary to make our platforms sustainable over time – a paradigm shift centered around the idea of treating data as a product and building modular platforms capable of governing the intrinsic complexity they generate without collapsing. It is a systemic transformation that touches on different levels of the organization. Throughout, we have shown the desired transformation required for each level, from mental models to operating...
