Data Strategy

Driving innovation through data

You can’t have a business without data. You can’t capitalize on data without a successful data strategy. And every data strategy needs business drivers and technology enablers, to maintain its continuing evolution.

A comprehensive data strategy and associated roadmap can help you align your data strategy to your business vision, by ensuring you understand:

• why data-driven success is important
• what data and information you need to drive business disruption
• why driving data ‘monetization’ can help you identify new revenue opportunities (products, markets, or customer segments)
• what to do with your data and information, and how to maintain it
• when to synchronize data activity and milestones, and measure outcomes
• how to re-evaluate your data effectiveness over time.

If you can resolve all those issues, then you can truly capitalize on data asset management.

Data is power

In a competitive marketplace – and what marketplace isn’t competitive? – data is the key to gaining a business advantage. But you need:

• a vision of your strategic business objectives, which will enable you to align your data strategy to your business needs
• a clear strategy for how to take care of it
• a clear focus on the right data, people and processes
• effective tools and technologies to manage and analyze it.

The Agile approach

Whatever stage you have reached in developing your data strategy – even if you are simply architecting for the future – we will be able to provide expertise and support to your team, adding value and optimizing the process.

We can:

• look at your current strategic vision, underlying data availability, strategy, design, architecture and data management maturity
• review your business case and planned initiatives
• review your delivery plan and use cases
• define your:
  • data vision aligned to business strategy
  • desired data architecture
  • desired operating model
  • capability roadmap for achieving desired data architecture
  • capability roadmap for increasing your data management maturity to the
  • desired level
  • data governance and data quality management resolution.

If required, we can help you deliver this under our AIM Agile Framework approach.