Data Strategy

5 CREATING A ROUTE MAP – AIM HIGH, PLAN DEEP!

‘A good plan is like a road map: it shows the final destination and usually the best way to get there.’

H. Stanley Judd¹

In previous chapters I have covered the importance of timelines, waymarkers and articulating realistic goals as the critical focal points to have constantly in your mind whilst defining a data strategy. This is not just because these represent good practice in any major undertaking that needs a plan. In my experience, strategies have failed to be adopted or implemented, or have simply stalled, because these aspects were not thought through extensively enough in the preparatory stages and through the defining of the data strategy.

In many cases, those who define the data strategy ...