The True Costs of Technical Debt (and How to Avoid it)

The True Costs of Technical Debt (and How to Avoid it)

The term “technical debt” is used to describe the cost of making technical decisions with a short-term mindset. While short-term solutions provide temporary fixes that allow products to go to market more quickly, they often create problems that ultimately hinder growth. Explore four consequences of technical debt and five ways to avoid it.

The Demand for (and Difficulties of) Data Harmonization

The Demand for (and Difficulties of) Data Harmonization

Over the last decade, the sheer abundance of raw marketing data collected coupled with the wildly disparate array of sources from which it came had created an urgent need for unity and synthesis. This unity and synthesis are now suddenly achievable in the form of data...
The Cost of Marketing Data Friction

The Cost of Marketing Data Friction

Had Enough of Data Friction?  For all the current talk about data friction, you’d think the concept would be a complex one. It’s not. Data friction is simply the difficulty, lag time, or inefficiency that stems from not having the unified data a program, team,...