You ignore this political negotiation challenge of analytics at great peril to your project. It is an order of magnitude bigger issue than actual analytics on t

You ignore this political negotiation challenge of analytics at great peril to your project. It is an order of magnitude bigger issue than actual analytics on the data. This is absolutely true. For many projects, more time is spent negotiating with various data providers and waiting for them to fulfill their end of the bargain than actually doing something productive. And you are correct, it is mostly due to the fiefdoms that have developed over a long period of time which have then been codified in layers upon layers of politics.