I agree fully. This is a piece of the culture change that I've helped drive at a couple of large insurers. The teams that I've taken over have to drop the con

I agree fully. This is a piece of the culture change that I've helped drive at a couple of large insurers. The teams that I've taken over have to drop the control mentality over the data, as frankly, we need information all over the place and we can't (and shouldn't) possibly see to every request. Instead, we advise and help others serve their own data needs, and for those individuals in business units who we think have the potential, we'll mentor and pull in for project work to expand their technical skillset. The best run companies I've worked for have all been very data-driven in their decisions, and the culture I've always promoted is one where we enable our business partners to directly combine their knowledge and the company's data to make better choices. As a result, I can have my teams focus on acquiring data and engineering it to be usable by the organization. The idea is that we need decision-makers to spend less time acquiring data and more time analyzing it.