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Three years of disruption, one pattern. The organisations that moved first on data infrastructure are pulling away from those that waited. This piece looks at the actual evidence — traffic patterns, licensing revenue, rights dispute rates — and draws some uncomfortable conclusions for anyone still in a planning phase.
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Three years of disruption, one pattern: the organisations that moved first on data infrastructure are pulling away from the rest.
ProductStrategy documents are not products. The gap between the two is where most organisations get stuck — and where we spend most of our time.
IndustryMusic rights data is among the most complex in any creative industry. Here is why solving it matters — and what a real solution looks like.
Public SectorWe spent three years building inside the NHS. Here is what most commentators get wrong about health data — and what the real constraints actually are.
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StrategyA diagnostic framework drawn from our Accelerator programme. Eleven questions that will tell you whether your data product has a commercial model problem, a data quality problem, or a distribution problem.
TransportMost transit agencies treat their operational data as a cost. Transport for London turned theirs into a revenue stream. The difference was not technology — it was intent.
ProductEvery data product failure we have ever investigated has had bad data quality somewhere in the story. But the cause is almost never the engineering team. Here is where it actually starts.
Higher EducationA research university generates decades of structured, validated, longitudinal data. The commercial opportunity is significant. The organisational barriers are real but solvable.
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