CFO Talk -  Data Management: The New Frontier with Prashanth Southekal

Last year Prashanth’s FInEx Talk was on data management.

He shocked us all when he explained that data’s steady state is a liability. It must be crafted and managed to convert it to an asset.

Fortunately, he shared with us three attributes that must exist to make data an asset. He kicks things off in this CFO Talk by reviewing what those attributes are.

Enjoy the CFO-centric pearls on data and analytics that Prashanth readily delivers to our community. He is a globally renowned expert in this space.

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