40 Convening and collaboration on digital transformation
Secondly, data complexity.
“As data Standards needed to provide guidance
for data governance regimes Nathan Marsh, Chief Digital Officer, Turner & Townsend
Nathan Marsh is Chief Digital Officer at Turner & Townsend, providing consultancy services to major capital, digital and net zero programmes globally. As a decision-maker, his perspective on data is how it helps management
teams make smarter, faster and more fact-based decisions that achieve results. Nathan sees three aspects of data we must get right: Firstly, data volume. “Major capital, digital and net zero programmes need and generate huge amounts
of complex data, so data volume is growing fast. As assets themselves become smarter, for example with a self-monitoring capability, the volume of data, and demand for it across a growing range of stakeholders, increases still further.”
volume increases, complexity grows exponentially. It’s because there is more data, from more sources, used for more purposes. As processing power increases, we are able to manage greater volumes, with greater complexity and greater speed, with unprecedented accuracy. This gets more complex with the proliferation of 5G networks that transfer data across schemes, programmes and assets at high-speed. Thirdly, data gravity. “Data is heavier, deeper and richer because it has never before been possible to measure, assess and influence so many aspects of a programme or asset. A sensor-enabled piece of engineering equipment – a ‘digital asset’ – tells you almost anything, so think hard about what you need to see, against what you want to see. “Mission-critical data should be at
Nathan Marsh
the presentation layer, with access to other data sources made easy. Add to this commercial data, supplier and commodity data, net zero data, and it’s clear we are in an era of unprecedented data gravity.” For Nathan, our collective, industrial challenge is to understand and gain control over this data. “To make the
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