Building a data-driven company

From left: Jeff Sandhu (panel moderator), Shamsul Izhan, Catherine Lian and Azhar Adnan at the IBM Malaysia Partners Solutions Day Innovation Talk.

With the rise of companies looking to digitalise in the wake of Covid-19, the buzz is now about transitioning firms to becoming “data-driven” to harness data strategy to power their businesses.

Shamsul Izhan Abdul Majid, chief technology and innovation officer at Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission, stated that becoming a data-driven organisation entails more than just embracing technology.