TL;DR: The "right-click deploy" world of SaaS and AI means business units no longer wait for ICT - they just subscribe. But while the capability to move fast has shifted to the business, the accountability for the associated risks (like cyber safety, PII, and data ROT) has been left behind. This massive gap is breeding accountability...

This is it. We've reached the final post in the "Facing the Elephant" series.

In this series, we've walked around the elephant in the room: unstructured data.

The hidden risks lurking in our unstructured data - and why GenAI will drag them into the light.

In the first post of this series, I called out the elephant in the room: unstructured data. It makes up the majority of enterprise information, yet is often invisible to leaders - and thus, often avoided.

We call ourselves data-driven. Dashboards glow, KPIs tick upwards, and AI pilots are everywhere.