Buried Intelligence: How Enterprises Can Stop Hoarding Data and Start Extracting Value From It
Large organizations are generating data at unprecedented rates while deriving strategic value from a surprisingly small fraction of what they collect. The gap between data accumulated and data actually used represents both a financial burden — in storage and maintenance costs — and a missed competitive opportunity. This analysis diagnoses the structural causes of enterprise data underutilization and outlines practical steps for making organizational information genuinely actionable.