Creme Global has entered teams in the Dublin Tag Rugby league over the years. I have always loved team sports, competing and tag rugby fitted right in with this. I enjoyed seeing the strengths and weaknesses of our team appear on the pitch. It taught me a lot about each person and the team, and it struck me that many lessons of playing good tag rugby are transferable to business. In this article, I explore those learnings.

Data is one of our greatest raw materials and can hold the key to unlocking some our biggest problems. It can be the catalyst for great change in our society.

But … data is a prisoner, it is trapped in silos, restricted, controlled and under the thumb of data owners, often well intentioned, but sometimes with no vision of how to use it.