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Data streams & visualization: MIGHT start to rebuild biz confidence
By WDavidStephenson | September 16, 2008
As a follow-up to my speech in DC last week, I’m talking to a major investment firm this week about the potential benefits to them of emulating what Mayor Fenty and CTO Vivek Kundra has done in DC with automatic data feeds. After years of corruption under past administrations, they’re rebuilding public confidence through a combination of actually delivering efficient services and being open and transparent — right down to releasing credit card receipts.
Given the current economic melt-down, I don’t know about you, but I no longer believe ANYTHING I heard from big business. Even though I’m increasingly focusing on internal use of data feeds and visualization in order to improve organizational efficiency and performance, I’m beginning to think that companies need to adopt at least part of the Fenty mentality and start to release a significant amount of their corporate data on a real-time basis as one means to give us a shred of confidence in them and their integrity.
Of course there’s a lot of corporate data that must remain confidential, but I’ll bet that there’s a lot that’s confidential just because it’s always been that way, and a rigorous re-examination will show that it’s not justified.
What do you think?
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