FinTech Magazine February 2020 | Page 122

DISCOVERY LIMITED
122 and decentralisation of information . “ As much as possible , we ’ ll try to choose open-source technologies with enterprise-grade support .” Fatti adds .
It takes company-wide skill to balance the desire to maintain a cohesive global model with the need to allow a degree of local identity and innovation in individual markets . Initially , one of the challenges around Discovery ’ s expansion was the amount of work the growth generated for the central team . “ We were trying to pare down the dependency on that central platform team and empower our partner markets instead ,” Fatti says .

“ From a technology perspective , we ’ re really seeing this move from what we call ‘ the connected self ’ to ‘ the quantified self ’”

— Anton Fatti Chief Digital Officer , Discovery Limited
FEBRUARY 2020