Build a Robust and Comprehensive Data Strategy
Key to building and fostering a data-driven culture.
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Not building a data strategy will:
- Perpetuate misunderstanding of what data means (and doesn’t) to your organization.
- Cause further misalignment of your organization’s data against organizational goals and objectives.
- Continue the cycle of mistrust in company data and connected IT services and products.
Building an effective data strategy will:
- Enable you to focus your data practices on business outcomes.
- Allow you to take a key initial step in your overall data transformation by laying out the high-level "what" before focusing on the how.
- Be a key step in building trust with your data, team, and the organization.
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Onsite Workshops offer an easy way to accelerate your project. If you are unable to do the project yourself, and a Guided Implementation isn’t enough, we offer low-cost onsite delivery of our Project Workshops. We take you through every phase of your project and ensure that you have a road map in place to complete your project successfully.
Book NowModule 1: Establish scope of your data strategy
The Purpose
Define
the full scope of your data strategy.
Key Benefits Achieved
Alignment with the group on how far your data strategy will
(and won’t) go.
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| 1.1 | Identify your organization’s strategic vision and goals. |
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| 1.2 | Identify the business initiatives that support the organizational strategy. |
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| 1.3 | Discuss the importance of vision, mission, and guiding principles of the organization’s data strategy. |
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Module 2: Gather the key inputs for your strategy
The Purpose
Align
and bring together what will inform your data strategy.
Key Benefits Achieved
- A clearer view of the organization’s needs and pains outside of your data team.
- A view of your overall data maturity and culture.
| Activities: | Outputs: | |
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| 2.1 | Conduct line-of-business deep dives to understand supporting strategies and tactics, pain points, and current and desired uses and applications of data. |
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| 2.2 | Identify critical risks to your data strategy. |
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| 2.3 | Assess your current data culture. |
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Module 3: Align on how to increase business value from data
The Purpose
Focus
on a business-first approach to your data strategy by thinking about how you
can leverage data to achieve key business outcomes.
Key Benefits Achieved
Take
the first step in changing the culture of both your data teams and users to
focus on business outcomes.
| Activities: | Outputs: | |
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| 3.1 | Establish line-of-business data gain and pain-relieving initiatives. |
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| 3.2 | Establish data team(s) gain and pain-relieving initiatives. |
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| 3.3 | Consolidate your data initiatives and establish your top data strategies. |
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Module 4: Develop your data strategy and value delivery horizons
The Purpose
Formalize elements of your data strategy and provide an initial view of future delivery based on the strategy.
Key Benefits Achieved
Be
in a position to ask for executive alignment along with a clear view of next
steps.
| Activities: | Outputs: | |
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| 4.1 | Assess data initiative feasibility. |
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| 4.2 | Map value to corporate and functional strategic goals (and timing). |
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| 4.3 | Rationalize your initiative list based on strategic value alignment. |
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| 4.4 | Establish your “big bet.” |
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| 4.5 | Complete your data strategy tactic cards. |
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| 4.6 | Outline your key CXO asks and next steps. |
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