Mental Models for Data and AI, Part 1: Why Silos Persist

The data warehouse of the 1990s, the data lake of the 2010s and today s GenAI platform fail surprisingly often for the same reasons. Three decades, three generations of technology, one set of mistakes. That is difficult to explain if the problem is the technology. My thesis for this series is therefore that data and AI initiatives rarely fail because of technology. They fail because of…