Bad Data’s Hidden Toll

How to Calculate Your Data Debt

You can’t see it on a balance sheet. Your CFO never gets a memo about it. It doesn’t appear in any quarterly report. Yet, it’s silently leaching revenue, eroding margins, and sabotaging your strategic goals.

It’s your organization’s data debt.

Data debt is not a one-time cost. It’s the relentless, compounding tax on every decision, every process, and every customer interaction.

The problem isn’t that leaders don’t care about data. It’s that the cost of bad data is often intangible. It’s hidden in the opportunity costs and operational friction we’ve learned to accept as ‘just the way things are.’

Today, we’re going to change that. We’re moving from a vague feeling that your data is a mess to a concrete framework for calculating what that mess is actually costing you.