Why is Data a Product?
Hello there! Welcome to my first Blogger post about Data and the important role it plays in Products. I'm a Product Manager for a successful software house in London focussing on address, location and contact data tools. What I'd like to do here is pretty simple: 1. Talk about my experiences of Product Management 2. Highlight the value of good quality Data to your Products 3. Share stories on how data and products combine to help people and organisations Obviously, it's important to start by saying that any views contained in this blog do not represent those of my employer so please don't make any assumptions! So, why is Data a Product? It's something that I'm constantly striving to define to people who focus on the software that they see and use. For example, when you use a mapping service like Google Maps on your phone, you're focussing on the user interface, speed of lookup and quality of result. All of this is surely down to clever software dev...