Some of the first companies to use data lakes, cloud databases, and analytics pipelines can show us a lot about why modern, cloud-based data architecture matters to the data-driven organization. — A couple of years ago, Slalom surveyed 1,000 business decision-makers across multiple industries with the goal of discovering where companies see themselves in relation to what we call a Modern Culture of Data. We define a Modern Culture of Data as an organizational culture of experimentation and innovation, where people…