Data Strategy
Data strategy links the decisions your business wants to make better to the data, people and technology needed to make them. The roadmap comes out in phases, each with an owner, a KPI and a budget your leadership can approve on its own.
Our approach
From business target to funded roadmap
Your business targets come first, not a tool list. Together with your leadership and key stakeholders we work out which decisions should change, and what each change is worth.
Then we look at what it takes to deliver: the capabilities and governance you need across business units and markets, and the architecture and tools the data has to run on. The result is one data agenda and a roadmap in phases, each with an owner and a measure of success.
- The data agenda follows what your business needs to decide.
- Nothing goes on the roadmap without someone accountable for it.
- Each phase has its own budget, so you can approve one step at a time.
What we do
Four services, in the order most clients take them
- Data Maturity AssessmentSee how far your platform, governance and adoption are from what your plan needs.
- Use Case PrioritisationFind out which business decisions are worth improving with data first, and why.
- Data GovernanceSet clear rules for who owns each dataset, so an audit holds up.
- Operating ModelChoose between a central, federated or embedded data team, and decide who staffs it.
Ready to put your data to work?
Talk to us about data strategy. We can help you work out which decisions to improve first, and what data they need.