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Tagged with: #data-monetisation

Posts tagged with #data-monetisation reveal how to identify, value, and capitalise on your organisation’s unique data assets.

Demystifying data monetisation: Insights for private equity portfolio companies

Spring, London | Published in AI , Board and Data | 3 minute read |    
Mario Thomas presenting to private equity portfolio company executives on data monetisation and driving exit value through digitisation.

Last night, I had the pleasure of returning to the Chief Wine Officer event series on behalf of AWS, this time addressing leaders from private equity portfolio companies on a topic close to my heart: turning organisational data into strategic value. The evening, hosted at Spring at Somerset House, brought together executives eager to explore how to accelerate value creation through data monetisation within PE timeframes.

The enterprise data advantage: Turning information assets into strategic value

New York | Published in AI , Board and Data | 15 minute read |    
The image features a sophisticated office setting with futuristic holographic data displays and digital streams. In the background, there are subtle visuals of historical newspapers and documents, including folded stacks and old headlines, seamlessly integrated with the modern tech environment. The image uses vibrant blue and white tones for the tech elements and sepia accents for the newspaper visuals, symbolizing the convergence of past and present in digital transformation. (Image generated by ChatGPT 4o)

In 1998, I walked into the headquarters of our newly acquired newspaper group in Leeds, a result of a private equity-backed management buyout of United News & Media’s regional newspaper and magazine titles. Tasked with ‘doing the internet’, I found a small semblance of online activity in the form of a basic advertising website for the Yorkshire Post. A couple of weeks of getting my feet under my desk yielded a digital goldmine - 271 years of content waiting to be transformed into digital assets.