How on Earth do we manage all of this data/information/knowledge/intelligence? We need help. We need the computers to help us. As in, Artificial Intelligence (AI). AI could help us make sense of all of it, except the ‘all of it’ is scattered and parsed all over the world without any standard form or organizational structure. So-what if we stopped driving the IT and instead drove the data (which is what we want anyway)?
Just suppose we got control of our data, controlled it, and standardized it across the globe? Imagine it-data element X looks like this, means this, is accessed by this nomenclature, owned (controlled) by this organization and (maybe) even updated this way. IT could do whatever it wanted with it as long as it didn’t change the structure of the element!