Effective Data Management begins and ends with the Data Management Professionals that run your Data Management Program. If your Data Management team is ineffective, your Data Management Program as a whole will be ineffective. If you feel like you’re an ineffective data management professional, and you want to fix this, read on… Why are Data …
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In our 2021 research, we discovered that 33% of firms have no budget set aside for data governance. A further 37% were only using ad-hoc budgets, usually drawn from other IT initiatives or projects. This normally involves spending money on data cleansing/migration when implementing a new technology rather than investing in a strategic data improvement …
Are you tasked with drafting a data governance roadmap, but currently staring at a blank page? Perhaps you’ve been given a budget or a new role in data governance, and now you need to work out where to begin. Daunting, isn’t it? Maybe your firm has tried and failed with data governance before, and now …
If you work in data and you’re like 68% of the firms we talk to at Cognopia, you’re probably confused about data strategy. At a high level, you know you need one. You’re convinced that data drives business value and that a data strategy will help you on your path to becoming a data-driven business. …
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A data-driven business describes a company that uses data to: Make better decisions. Improve business processes. Gain more customers. Keep customers for longer, and, as a result; Increase revenues and profits. Unless you’re running a data-driven business, your staff probably use gut-feel, intuition, emotions, or external pressures to drive decisions. This leads to an over-reliance …
There’s been a lot of chatter on LinkedIn recently about creating a data strategy. Lots of arguments pass about what a data strategy is. Some suggest that your data strategy should just be part of your business strategy. This article skips past these arguments. We prefer the metaphor of flying a kite put forward by …
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Keeping a business consistently data-driven isn’t easy. Vast quantities of potentially valuable company and consumer data lie locked away in corporate silos or lost in cross-functional translation. To unlock the hidden value in all this data, organisations are increasingly turning to the newest member of the C-suite, the CDO. TABLE OF CONTENTS Chapter 1: What …
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Before you embark on any new initiative, you must come up with a plan. In this case, a data governance strategy. It’s imperative to prioritise your work and align it with the business strategy in order to get the support and funding required. The first step in this process is to diagnose the problems in …
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Your firm likely has a goldmine of data that is not being put to full use. We help you unlock the potential, running data-driven business transformation programs so you increase revenues, decrease costs and eliminate risks in your business.