Dr. Thomas C. Redman, “the Data Doc,” is the President of Data Quality Solutions.  He is among the few able to combine a visionary’s view of the data landscape with deep expertise in data quality, data science, and analytics.  Tom helps leaders and companies understand their most important issues and opportunities in data, chart a course, and build the organizational capabilities they need to execute.  From start-ups to enormous multinationals; from senior executives and Chief Data Officers to people in the middle, struggling to get something started; Tom helps build data-driven futures.   Dozens of companies have benefited from his advice.  

 Tom may be the world’s most passionate advocate for data quality.  His Harvard Business Review article, “Data’s Credibility Problem” (December, 2013) laid bare the opportunity, and Getting in Front on Data (Technics, 2016) showed companies how to build the organizational capabilities they need to make improvements.  He published The Real Work of Data Science (Wiley, 2019), with Ron Kenett, to help data scientists become more effective.  Tom has developed keen insights into the nature of data in organizations and formulated the first comprehensive approach to competing with data. Taken together, these enable organizations to treat data as assets of virtually unlimited potential. Tom’s book, Data Driven (Harvard Business School Press, 2008) is still the most important in this space.

More recently, Tom has embraced “people and data.”  He points out that people can empower themselves with data in seemingly magical ways.  But too many ignore or worse, treat people as part of the problem.  He urges companies to get everyone involved and treat data as a team sport.  His clients are putting these ideas into practice. His forthcoming book, People and Data (Kogan Page, 2023) presents a powerful synthesis. He has written dozens of articles for Harvard Business Review and MIT Sloan Management Review.  He has two patents.