IDG Contributor Network: Trailblazers: Notes from the new data frontier

Last week, I had the pleasure of meeting with the Podium Data Executive Advisory Council (EAC). The EAC is comprised of a group of senior executives and advisors from TD Bank, Cigna, the International Institute for Analytics (IIA) and several others. These companies are on the leading edge of transforming their businesses with agile analytics and self-serve data marketplaces. One attendee described the group as “trailblazers”; I could not agree more.Yet they are not trailblazers beca