Data strategy

Data strategy: who you are, and where you want to Be

What should your data strategy be?

We believe it should be based on a healthy mix of national, sector and organisational priorities, ensuring that people and our environment sit at the very centre of any priority, and that there are feedback loops built in everywhere.

That strategy will be how you prioritise what you share and open, and is closely interwoven with your data governance.

The interactions between people that are just as important, if not more, as their individual needs and responsibilities. Design thinking has its uses, but it’s too limited. Systems thinking and complexity theory will help you understand your world, see it as a network, and understand both where you can have most impact, and where the gaps are. That is how you will build resilient, effective strategies.

We can help you to:

• understand your organisational and sectoral context

• engage with and understand your stakeholders’ needs

  • this includes running events like unconferences, civic labs and hackathons

• create your data strategy

• design living processes for deciding on and measuring your performance against your data strategy

• design systems for prioritising your data-related work.