What does it actually mean to treat data as an asset?
THE SO WHAT
Treating data as an asset only matters once you attach ownership, quality standards, and access paths that make it usable by models — otherwise it’s just rhetoric on a slide. If you can’t answer who “owns” a dataset, what its freshness/SLA is, and how an AI system would query it, you’re not at asset level yet.
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