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Hippolyte Lefebvre, Ph.D.

  Researcher in Data Management

My purpose is to empower employees and organizations to harness the power of data.

My research

Hippolyte Lefebvre

Ph.D.

Researcher in Information Systems

My purpose is to empower employees and organizations to harness the power of data.

My research

My Research Purpose

Scaling Enterprise Data Practices

Many firms still struggle to create business value. This challenges mainly stems from  an overemphasis on technological enablement, which overlooks the crucial integration of data activities and methods—known as data practices— into the daily tasks of a growing and diverse workforce. 

My research focuses on explaining how companies scale their data practices so that how employees can effectively combine data with domain expertise. Specifically, I investigate the interplay between data democratization—which empowers more employees to work with data—and data governance, which coordinates this expansion.

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Want to know more about the 5 pillars of data democratization? 

Many companies have made becoming data-driven a goal, and yet many traditional organizations are still struggling to democratize data beyond the data experts. 

In our recent HBR article, we state that companies must adopt a new management paradigm to truly democratize data, and offer 5 pillars to create a “data democracy”.

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