Data Excellence

This book provides a powerful, intuitive methodology on how to approach data leadership in a way that will steer organisations to deliver effective, improved and sustained data performance.

Data Excellence shows how data leaders can strategise and deliver effective data capabilities, value generation, and performance for their organisation. Both strategic and tactical, it positions data leaders as personal trainers responsible for preparing and coaching their organisation to professional excellence and capabilities through a long-term sustainable performance plan.

It covers the three key pillars organisations must address to achieve data excellence: culture change, improving the way change is done, and generating, measuring, and sustaining data value for the organisation.

This book walks readers through key tasks and components such as data fitness assessments, data risks and control environments, data productisation, data valuation models, advanced business models, data supply chain assurance, and interlocking with control functions and ESG and CSR value propositions.

It offers exercises to test data performance, such as strategic initiatives dependency analysis, writing the right data consumer stories, and calculating the return on investment for a data programme.