Tech Unknown Podcast With Kirk Borne: Connecting Islands of Innovation

"When you start looking at connecting points, those intersections across the different siloed data collections and siloed departments, you might just be amazed at what you could discover." Most businesses have siloed departments that are pursuing digital transformation independently, creating "islands of innovation" throughout the enterprise. This episode discusses how to unify these efforts into a cohesive strategy to develop an intelligent enterprise. What could your business do if you had total control over your data? In NASA's case, a data transformation is what made the Hubble telescope and countless other amazing discoveries possible. Our guest this episode, Kirk Borne, was there when it happened. He began his career as an astrophysicist, combining datasets from multiple fields in unprecedented ways. Now Kirk's work is more down to earth. In this episode, he shares how businesses can "democratize data" across the enterprise. And he explains how data transparency plus intelligent analytics can lead to new efficiencies, better customer experiences, even entire new business models. "The key is this concept of the culture of experimentation, that you allow people to experiment with data." Kirk Borne is a Principal Data Scientist and Executive Advisor at Booz Allen Hamilton.