The data-driven enterprise is a paradigm shift of an organization that requires culture and technology in order to align business objectives. It requires a comprehensive strategy that incorporates the best tools for seamless and effective analytics and visualization of relevant information tailored to the specific requirements of business executives.
Understanding and articulating your business goals and priority is the first step. This will help you define the areas and data sources that require attention during your data-driven transformation. This will also enable you to identify gaps content and prioritize your data-driven initiatives so that they have maximum impact.
It is essential to have clearly defined communication lines and an ownership feeling with all business stakeholders. This is the foundation for an effective data-driven business and ensures that there is a commitment to implement organizational, cultural and technical solutions to become an “data-driven” company.
This can be achieved by involving the business and let them decide at the beginning how their data will be used. This builds trust and shows the business is concerned about what happens to their data. Additionally, it helps create a sense of belonging and empowered. Ardoq allows you to structure and capture knowledge for visualizations and insight, which allows you to create the individualized information that management and business teams need.
Another crucial component is to establish a balanced data strategy that integrates central technology, leadership, and governance with decentralized ownership of data and the freedom to select different technological building blocks. This will enable the business to reap both short- and long-term advantages. It will also ensure that the business is able to respond quickly and effectively to critical situations such as merger, recession or cyber breach.