Why you are ‘data negligent’…and your part in the downfall of your company…

Nick Ayton
11 min readJul 4, 2024

Yes sounds like a ‘spoof’ movie or comedy show but I have to tell you as Employees, Management, Shareholders and Investors, deemed core stakeholders you are complicit in the downfall of businesses.

Picture by The Independent — employee leaving Lehman Bros in 2008 — too big to fail

Shock horror. Big statement but this is not funny— so let’s examine the facts…

I think it is fair to say most people working in a company take for granted the information they consume that underpins their day to day role is accurate, trusted, and the specific information they use for making key decisions has been validated as a trusted source.

A safe assumption right. Well WRONG actually. You could be misleading customers, lying to suppliers and putting out false inaccurate information to the markets.

Ask this: “Is the data behind the information you're acting upon not just accurate and reliable — is it what the originator wanted you to see?

Keep reading because it’s about to get a whole lot worse as GenerativeAI will compound the issue 1000X.

As an Investment Manager are you also part of the negligence?

The brutal question to ask you as an Investor, a Shareholder married to a business? Are you ignoring the fundamentals by assuming…

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Nick Ayton
Nick Ayton

Written by Nick Ayton

Nick Ayton is a Polymath, Technologist, Filmmaker, Writer, Speaker