39 Convening and collaboration on digital transformation
Promoting equity, diversity and inclusion in standards and standards development
Heather Savory biography Click to read
“If your data is not in a format that makes it interoperable, the danger is that your innovation will be stuck”
Returning to the theme of
interoperability, Heather says, “The overarching requirement for the general efficiency of business processes, procedures and systems is that the data underlying products and services is arranged in a way that allows seamless interoperability.” This is crucial when it comes
to realizing the potential for sharing data outside of your own
organization, and underlines the benefits common data standards can have across industry. “A common data standard makes it possible, for example, for businesses to anonymously benchmark their performance against other similar businesses,” says Heather. “We all exist in a highly networked global environment where no organization stands in isolation. Even
something as basic as food production is highly interconnected as farmers, producers, distributors, transport systems and retailers are all part of a hugely complex supply chain.” Heather believes there are “huge efficiencies” available to the public and private sector if data could be shared in an effective way to carry out multiple tasks.
“For example, if a gas company wants to dig up the road to lay a pipe and the electricity company and telecoms company want to lay cables in the same place, and they all share their data with the highways authority, they can coordinate the works so we don’t have to have three separate, consecutive sets of roadworks.” When it comes to innovation, the message is the same; “If you’re innovating you need to be thinking about how your innovation will evolve. If your data is not in a format that makes it interoperable, the danger is that your innovation will be stuck in a silo and years of work could be wasted. You should be thinking of how to structure your data intentionally so it can be shared at some point in the future.”
It is not only organizations that benefit from data sharing and interoperability but also consumers; “The days of proprietary systems in the digital world are gone because consumers now expect the products they buy to operate seamlessly from one platform to another.
“In the wider market, data sharing and interoperability also makes it less likely that monopolies can develop, which is good news for consumers.”
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