The Numbers Don't Lie — But Yours Might: How Fragmented Data Is Quietly Undermining Your Strategy
Executives across US industries are making consequential decisions every day based on dashboards and reports that present a distorted picture of reality. The culprit is rarely a lack of data — most organizations are drowning in it. The problem is data debt: the accumulated cost of poor governance, disconnected systems, and inconsistent definitions that erode the trustworthiness of analytics over time. This article examines how data debt forms, what it costs, and what it takes to build an analyti