Hidden Tech
The Enemy of Data Governance
Hidden Tech is anything that falls below the radar – the stuff that would not appear in an “official catalogue” of your organisation’s technology but which is nevertheless a key component of many processes and workflows.
Our capacity for processing ever larger amounts of data in an intelligent way cannot invalidate technology’s fundamental rule: trash in, trash out. Hidden tech is a place where this vulnerability will run unchecked; ignoring it is like navigating blind or accepting a black-market economy… but what exactly is lurking below the radar?