Creating a data strategy

A data strategy document’s focus is driven by an organization’s business goals, current as-is data maturity level, aspired data maturity, and associated capabilities. As you have seen in this book, the common theme is always Data Governance to achieve data integrity, which is a required topic in a data strategy document. The other is overall data management. Data management can be broken up into different compartments such as Data Integration, data operations, data architecture, and so on. Regardless of which focus areas are added, what’s critical is to ensure it always ties back to the business. It needs to address how to achieve the desired level of data maturity and how the associated capabilities will accelerate an enterprise’s business objectives and vision. One common pitfall that I have seen over and over when working with brilliant technical practitioners is the inability to tie technology back to business value. It’...