Data Strategy

6 CONTENT, STRUCTURE AND ALIGNMENT

‘Good strategy requires leaders who are willing and able to say no to a wide variety of actions and interests. Strategy is at least as much about what an organization does not do as it is about what it does.’

Richard Rumelt¹

We have reached the point in the book to start considering how you are going to write the strategy. What should it contain? What shouldn’t I include? How do I strike a balance between being too verbose but providing the clarity to make it understood to others? What’s the right level for a data strategy to be set at, and how do I know if I have got it right if this is the first time my organisation has seen a data strategy?

There are so many questions. Worse still, the answer to a number ...