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Building Resilient Automation: The 8 C’s of Data Quality
I'm presenting at this BrightTALK session on Sep 29 2026, 1:00pm BST
Automation initiatives often fail not because of technology, but due to unreliable data. Missing fields, inconsistent definitions and outdated spreadsheets create cracks in operational processes, leading to failed workflows and costly disruptions. For IT Operations, these issues mean constant firefighting instead of driving innovation, leaving businesses exposed to inefficiencies and risks.
Building resilient automation systems requires more than just advanced tools. It demands a strong data foundation. Poor data quality undermines automation efforts, creating brittle systems that can’t adapt to real-world complexities. For business leaders, this challenge also presents an opportunity: by addressing data quality issues early, organizations can unlock the full potential of intelligent automation, reduce risks and drive sustainable growth.
Join me to explore how the "8 C’s of Data Quality" can help you future-proof your automation strategies.
Key Takeaways:
- Identify the hidden risks poor data quality poses to automation and AIOps initiatives.
- Learn how to spot and address common failure points in your data foundation.
- Discover actionable strategies to build resilient, scalable automation systems
- Explore how IT leaders can turn data quality challenges into business opportunities.
- Gain insights into real-world examples of successful automation transformations
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Today, we've published our 2026 annual review: The State of the Cyber Nation.
The UK faces a moment of choice. The future of cyber resilience is not set.
Read the report now:
ncsc.gov.uk/collection/annua…
@GCHQ @DanJarvisMBE
ALT Front cover of the NCSC's annual review 2026, titled: 'The State of the Cyber Nation'. The background is a cityscape over a river, with the skyline reflected in the water and a glitchy effect.
ALT Quote card of NCSC CEO Richard Horne with cityscape background, featuring a quote: 'The biggest cyber security challenge of the next decade requires us to look not at our attackers, but at ourselves'.
ALT Quote card of Director GCHQ, Anne Keast-Butler, which says: 'Cyber security is now part of the frontline defence of our nation'.
ALT Quote card of Security Minister Dan Jarvis, which says: 'Maximising opportunities whilst minimising risks from AI is an era-defining challenge'.
Agree with the commentary from @HedgieMarkets below. I'd just add that the frozen food market tends to serve people on lower budgets, so it will impact the most vulnerable.
🦔Hackers hit supermarket freezers again overnight, this time across Belgium, Sweden and a handful of other European countries. They remotely switched units into defrost mode and pushed them as high as 50°C, ruining frozen stock at chains like Delhaize and Coop. It’s the same kind of attack that hit about 700 stores in France three weeks ago. Many of the targeted controllers are old, internet-exposed models that no longer get security updates.
My Take
Hackers have moved past stolen passwords and into the physical world. Last year one attack shut Jaguar Land Rover’s factories for about five weeks, and now grocery freezers are fair game. Every system that went online to save on staff added another way in, and companies keep adding more, all the way down to AI agents that log into accounts for you. AI also makes the attacker’s job faster and cheaper, so I don’t see this slowing down.
Security turns into a cost every business pays one way or another, either upfront or after the disaster. I think the companies that kept a manual backup (someone who can walk over and check the freezer) look a lot smarter over the next few years.
Hedgie
Jennifer Stirrup #MBA Topics: #AI #Data #Strategy retweeted
🦔Hackers hit supermarket freezers again overnight, this time across Belgium, Sweden and a handful of other European countries. They remotely switched units into defrost mode and pushed them as high as 50°C, ruining frozen stock at chains like Delhaize and Coop. It’s the same kind of attack that hit about 700 stores in France three weeks ago. Many of the targeted controllers are old, internet-exposed models that no longer get security updates.
My Take
Hackers have moved past stolen passwords and into the physical world. Last year one attack shut Jaguar Land Rover’s factories for about five weeks, and now grocery freezers are fair game. Every system that went online to save on staff added another way in, and companies keep adding more, all the way down to AI agents that log into accounts for you. AI also makes the attacker’s job faster and cheaper, so I don’t see this slowing down.
Security turns into a cost every business pays one way or another, either upfront or after the disaster. I think the companies that kept a manual backup (someone who can walk over and check the freezer) look a lot smarter over the next few years.
Hedgie
Supermarket freezers in Belgium, Sweden and Luxembourg hit by suspected cyber-attack bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cq1k…
Supermarket freezers in Belgium, Sweden and Luxembourg hit by suspected cyber-attack bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cq1k…
Google value plunges by $500bn as AI search hits ad sales. The irony - I remember delivering AI projects around the year 2000, and being told that the term 'AI' was being replaced by the term 'search technologies' because of Google's dominance.
I really have lived through a whole cycle of the tech industry. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cm9q…
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This is a new and interesting initiative
makeyourselfheard.org/notice…
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HR installed a mandatory mood survey that appears every morning when employees log into their laptops.
"How are you feeling today?"
Five options:
Thriving
Good
Okay
Stressed
Not Okay
I helped deploy it.
Here's what HR didn't tell anyone.
Clicking "Thriving" immediately closes the survey.
Clicking "Good" asks one follow-up question.
Clicking "Okay" asks five.
Clicking "Stressed" opens a 20-question wellness assessment.
Clicking "Not Okay" automatically schedules a meeting with your manager and sends HR a notification.
One engineer selected "Stressed" on Monday.
By Wednesday he'd received three wellness emails, a mandatory resilience webinar, and an invitation to discuss his emotional availability with HR.
Thursday he selected "Thriving."
Last week HR presented the results at our company all-hands.
EMPLOYEE HAPPINESS: 98.7%
The CEO gave a standing ovation.
He said this proved our investment in employee wellness was paying off.
I checked the raw data.
73% of employees selected "Thriving" within two seconds of the survey appearing.
They didn't even read the question.
They just wanted to get to their desktop.
HR asked IT to make the survey harder to dismiss so employees would engage more meaningfully.
I suggested making "Not Okay" close the window immediately instead.
HR said that would encourage negative responses.
We aren't measuring employee happiness.
We're measuring how badly people want HR to leave them alone.
Jennifer Stirrup #MBA Topics: #AI #Data #Strategy retweeted
Alistair Cockburn, one of the original authors of the Agile Manifesto, uses “zero votes” as a provocative description of a Scrum Master’s authority.
He recalls project managers in his classes trying to direct a team while playing the Scrum Master role. His challenge to them: help the team communicate and work together without assuming the power to decide its solution.
Where does that distinction become hardest to maintain on a real team?
Full session: agilealliance.org/resources/…
#ScrumMaster #AgileTeams #Facilitation
What would the @ChurchofEngland know about paying tax??? Dear God, what is wrong with these people? Sort out their safeguarding first. Priorities!
Hopes for “bold and meaningful steps towards a fairer tax system” articulated by church leaders went unmet in the Budget this week 💼💰
✍️ @MadsDavies
churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2…
One I didn't see coming: Atheist wins “religious exemption” to get out of using AI at work friendlyatheist.com/p/atheis…
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Microsoft announced 60,000 employees (H-U-G-E) are eligible for voluntary exits as the company doubles, triples and quadruples its investment in #AI.
The firm is effectively laying off all these people, but the difference is the company is making a broad offer and letting employees choose whether to leave or not. I applaud this.
Says MSFT: "The Voluntary Exit Offer reflects an important part of how we’re evolving our approach to change: creating greater flexibility and, where possible, more ways for employees to shape their next chapter."
#Leadership #HR #Management #Layoffs
Microsoft offers voluntary exit packages to 60,000 staff. There are concerns about the institutional knowledge that leaves the building, as noted in this Yahoo article.
However, in my experience of dealing with Microsoft, institutional knowledge has never been their strong suit. Decisions are often lost in the midst of time, say, about two years max; resulting in decisions that nobody understands but just accepts. It is a consequence of the 'growth mindset' that @satyanadella and others have discussed in the past.
uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/mi…
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I discovered a former employee named Gary has been hosting a weekly meeting for the past six years.
Gary retired in 2020.
His recurring calendar invite never got canceled.
Every Tuesday at 2 PM, 23 employees still have a meeting called "Weekly Alignment" on their calendars.
Nobody attends.
Nobody knows what it was originally about.
I asked why they keep accepting it.
Apparently everyone uses it to decline other meetings.
It's a protected hour where nobody can bother them.
HR found out and asked IT to remove it.
I canceled the series.
Within 20 minutes, 14 employees complained.
One director said the meeting was essential to his team's productivity.
I reminded him Gary has been retired for six years.
He said Gary's absence wasn't relevant.
By Thursday, three department heads had escalated the issue to my boss.
Apparently removing a meeting that nobody attends has caused a measurable decline in employee satisfaction.
We restored the meeting.
Because Gary's account no longer exists, IT now owns the calendar invite.
We're technically hosting a weekly meeting for 23 employees where the organizer is dead to the company and nobody shows up.
HR wants to recognize Gary for his outstanding contribution to work-life balance.
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🦔Researchers studied data donated by 80 ChatGPT users and found the chatbot created 96% of its memories about them on its own, without being asked. About half of those memories described people’s desires, intentions, emotions or beliefs, and roughly a third of users had health information stored.
My Take
OpenAI started selling ads in February, and it says it can use your past chats and memories to personalize them if you turn personalized ads on. People tell a chatbot things they’d never type into a search bar, which makes that profile worth far more to advertisers than a browsing history. OpenAI says advertisers never see your conversations, and that can be true while your chats still decide which ads you get.
You can view and delete these memories. OpenAI admits the summary you see may not include everything the system uses, though, and deleting a chat doesn’t necessarily erase what it learned. Meta has used AI chats to target ads since last December, with no way to opt out, and most big chatbots will follow. If you ask these tools about your health or your money, turn memory off and keep personalized ads switched off.
Hedgie🤗
futurism.com/artificial-inte…
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“What’s absolutely unforgivable is the financial benefit top #management people get for laying off people. There is no excuse for it. No justification. This is morally and socially unforgivable, and we will pay a heavy price for it.”
~ Peter Drucker
#Layoffs #CSuite #Leadership #Business #WellBeing #LeadFromTheHeart
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'When Christ tells to love our neighbours, this does not mean telling our neighbours everything they want to hear or doing everything they would like done. So it is with the Church Commissioners of the Church of England.'
thecritic.co.uk/why-im-takin…
I feel sad for the gentleman involved.
TBQF, it is increasingly difficult to tell if images and videos are AI. It is even harder to identify if they are being reused on other platforms as well.
It seems that AI is being used for so many ads, for example.
malwarebytes.com/blog/scams/…
