No Data Strategy, No AI Strategy with Fuad Hendricks, Hark Consultants
AI ambition is outpacing data readiness. Companies want agentic AI, automation and enterprise-scale intelligence, but many are still running on fragmented systems, unclear ownership and messy legacy data. The real bottleneck is not model capability. It is the “data value gap”: the distance between the data organisations collect and the business value they can actually extract from it.
Fuad, co-founder and MD of Hark Consultants, argues that data must become a board-level performance driver, not a back-office concern. That means clear accountability, stronger data literacy, secure data…
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