Data Strategy Consulting

Are you using your data to make real-time actionable decisions?

Imagine having more accurate, more relevant, and more trustworthy answers.

Now imagine getting those answers when and where they’re needed, faster. Data strategy consulting gets you asking better questions about your people, products, customers, and other aspects of your business, so you can make more impactful decisions.

Don’t let your next data strategy be shelfware. We will walk your organization through a structured data strategy engagement resulting in an actionable roadmap. By the end, you will know what to build, what to prioritize, and how to successfully execute a transition from your current state.

Our data strategy consultants help clients answer the ‘why’ so they can get to the what, when, and how faster.

A Data Strategy You Can Execute with Focus

A sound data strategy is about empowering organizations with insight to make better people and process decisions. Its goal is to provide a strategic roadmap that prioritizes efforts and investment where it will have the biggest impact.

Your data strategy should consider the whole business from different perspectives: business strategy, organizational teams and departments, technical architecture, governance and operational use. Our tried-and-true approach to executing data strategies and roadmaps helps translate visions into practical, pragmatic and actionable plans.

Business Strategy Alignment

Driving Value

Architecture Modernization

Roles & Skills

Information Governance

Information Delivery Channels

Process Automation

Roadmap & Quick Wins

When Is the Right Time to Re-Evaluate Your Data Strategy?

Data Privacy Gaps

Data privacy is paramount. There has always been an ethical duty to protect your customers’ data. Now, these ethics are enforced through a cadre of regulations attached to penalties.

Some of the most common violations of data privacy occur through exposure of data within your organization. Mitigating this risk requires thoughtful design of your security through role-based access control (RBAC) and row-level security.

Your data strategy will recommend an approach to securing your data and controlling its distribution across the enterprise.

Business Strategy Disconnect

If the data strategy’s connection to the overarching business strategy is not clear, then it likely does not exist. The data team may be viewed as a cost center and little more.

Data can be more than a supporting pillar for the business. Process automation can drive cost out of operations. Artificial intelligence can improve business outcomes. Decision support can bolster performance of your workforce.

Your data strategy should consider how to generate profit, create market advantage and reduce operating costs.

IT Perceived As Bottleneck

Does your IT backlog for data and reports span into months? This scenario may result from an inefficient architecture where all data requests must go through a data warehouse. Other times, this can be caused by insufficient reporting team bandwidth. Every organization faces a unique set of challenges when it comes to IT and data.

Your data strategy will help you optimize your IT operations and you may be surprised at how modern technology can change the game. We bring a unique perspective on how modern organizations are democratizing data accessibility.

Same Words, Different Meanings

Mastering the terminology of your organization is a crucial step that touches reporting and analytics. Linguistic clarity makes a difference because communication between departments is critical. This is the foundation of good data governance.

Your data strategy will identify how data governance greases the skids to increase value obtained from data. Data governance maturity is a long journey, but one that can quickly pay dividends when correctly approached.

Growing Demand For Data Access

You probably know the risks: stakeholders often do not understand how to join and filter data; business rules may need to be applied to data to make it accurate and useful; and everyone is prone to generate different answers to the same question.

Modern data organizations have addressed this problem with data catalogs, data governance, data lakes and master data management. Your data strategy will tie these pieces together, allowing you to broadly and securely share data throughout the enterprise.

Data Accuracy Is Not Trusted

Accuracy of reported data is a concern shared among all organizations. Accuracy must first be clearly defined, and after that, the data must work to produce accurate results from base data sets. All of this requires clear data governance and clear expectations of definition.

Your data strategy will address the method for ensuring that data accuracy is sustained even after code is deployed to production. This requires a robust testing strategy for ETL, data transformations and reports. By adopting modern data testing practices, you will be in an elite group.

Data > Information > Insights > Action

Our data strategy consultants will tell you how to take informed action to tackle your most vital business challenges. We’ll give you a custom roadmap so you can prioritize building the capabilities that get you real-world results.

Are dashboards really helping?

Dashboards typically offer a retrospective on performance. Your organization is already aware of the major problems that occurred in the past. Is it wise to invest only in dashboards when they cannot help you head off problems “at the pass”?

Focus your energy where it makes the biggest difference.

Return on your data investment will grow exponentially when you tie insights to business processes and outcomes. The more your analytics impact your people, the greater your return.

We will help you find these opportunities in places you may not have looked:

Process Enrichment
Process Reengineering
Automation
Management Accountability

Information drives profit. We will help you make this a reality.

Our Related Data Strategy Services

Data Strategy Discovery

Data Strategy is about getting the people, process, and tools around data aligned and structured to help your organization meet its business goals.

This starts with understanding what you want to accomplish with your business. Then learning what you can currently do with your data and technology architecture to support those goals.
We work with you to identify needed skills and skill growth opportunities for your team and then align, prioritize, and plan recommended initiatives to achieve your goals.

Data initiatives are often complimented by elements of Modern Software Delivery, People and Change, and Business Process Improvement.

Data Governance Strategy

The best way to start your data governance initiative is to apply a data maturity model.

This model acts as a benchmark upon which you can review your current IT landscape and how well you manage your data against your people, processes, and technology — or all three combined.

The idea is to compare your current state to the desired state, which is predicated on your company goals and mission.

Once you understand where you are today, you will have a clearer picture of the policies you must implement to become a more data-driven company.

Technology innovation does not happen in a vacuum.

Business transformation isn’t complete without technology and digital innovations. And growing requires adapting to new services – or creating your own. We have the experience and expertise to help you do both.

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