Rajvir Nagra Date published: Dec 14, 22

Welcome to Breaking Silos!

We've launched this podcast to help people within digital roles address the big challenges they face and discuss the industry's key themes by leveraging today's best ideas in business and technology to break down old barriers to collaboration and business success.

Each week you will be joined by one of our three Breaking Silos hosts from Ideagen and together you will learn from experts across diverse industries to save time, cut costs and simplify your workflows. We aim to help you build a more connected, digital-first tomorrow.

In our first episode, we speak to Susan Walsh, Founder and Managing Director of The Classification Guru, to discuss:

• The dangers of dirty data
• What is dirty data whose job is data management
• The role of bad data in procurement
• What companies should do if they're in a mess.

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About Susan

Susan is a specialist in data classification, taxonomy customisation and data cleansing. She is an industry thought leader, TEDx speaker and author of the published ‘Between the Spreadsheets: Classifying and Fixing Dirty Data’. She’s also the creator of the COAT philosophy.

Susan has developed a methodology to classify accurately and efficiently, cleanse and check data for errors which will help prevent costly mistakes.

By bringing clarity and accuracy to data and procurement, Susan helps teams work more effectively and efficiently; cutting through the jargon to address the issues of dirty data and its consequences in an entertaining and engaging way.

Next time…

Be on the look out for our next episode, launching on Wednesday 21^st December where we will be talking to Brian Jackson, Research Director, CIO at Info-Tech Research Group and Author of Info-Tech's 2022 Tech Trends report. We will be discussing slow end-user tech adoption and giving you top tips and advice to avoid end-user failures.

The podcast can also be found on Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

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