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 planet sit at the very centre of any priority, and that there are feedback loops built in at every stage.
Your strategy will define how you prioritise what you use, share, and how, and is closely interwoven with your data governance.
Another key component is that understanding the interactions between people is just as important, if not more, as their individual behaviours, needs and responsibilities. Design thinking has its uses here, but it’s too limited. Systems thinking and complexity theory will help you understand your world, see it as a living, dynamic network, and understand both where you can have most impact, and where the gaps are. That is how you will build resilient, effective strategies and an ever better organisation.
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
- benchmark / measure your maturity, and set maturity goals
- create / iterate your data strategy
- design living processes for deciding on and measuring your performance against your strategy
- design systems for prioritising your data-related work
- ensure your data strategy meshes properly with your wider organisational strategy.
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