Philippe Nieuwbourg
Consultant / Trainer / Analyst
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Philippe Nieuwbourg is an independent trainer, analyst, and journalist with over 30 years of experience in business analysis, data and AI architecture, and governance.
He regularly works across Europe, North and South America, and Africa, both as a speaker and as a professional corporate trainer, through organizations such as Capgemini Institut, Serda, and Orsys. His presentations help decision-makers understand major technological trends and their impact on business. In recent years, he has trained several hundred professionals and supported dozens of companies.
His expertise spans business analysis, enterprise architecture, data science, information design, and data storytelling, and more recently, quantum computing.
Philippe is also the founder and director of the independent media outlet Decideo.fr, sharing analyses, trends, and best practices in data and artificial intelligence. His expertise combines technology, analysis, and education, with the goal of making data accessible and actionable for decision-makers and industry professionals.
A word from Philippe
"A company’s pace and goals aren’t driven by a constant rush to move faster for the sake of speed, but by steady, sensible progress: building solid architectural foundations, formalizing governance, documenting processes, anticipating challenges. And not chasing every new trend!"
Philippe’s vision
In your view, what is the key role of today’s data leaders in turning data into a lever for sustainable impact?
A Chief Data Officer, or equivalent, must understand that their primary role is ultimately to unlock the value of the organization’s information assets. They are not a bottleneck through which data must pass. They are the ones preparing the business for data autonomy. From being seen as a cost center, they will become a profit center, leveraging and monetizing the organization’s information assets.
Philippe’s inspirations
People who inspire me
- The “elders”: Michael Scott Morton, who “invented” business intelligence in 1971 at Harvard, and Bill Inmon, the founding father of the data warehouse in 1989—whose books are essential to understanding where we come from.
- The “younger generation”: Zhamak Dehghani, Jean-Georges Perrin, Andrew Jones, who opened the doors to decentralized yet governed data management— and whose books are also worth reading.
And we avoid listening to all the self-proclaimed LinkedIn experts who see every news announcement as a game-changing revolution.
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