Data Strategy

12 DATA STRATEGY: COMPLETING THE JOURNEY FROM DEFINITION TO EXECUTION

‘The biggest challenge of making the evolution from a knowing culture to a learning culture ... is really not the cost. Initially, it largely ends up being imagination and inertia’.

Murli Buluswar¹

This final chapter contains some key observations and insights that I wanted to share to conclude my thoughts on the wider responsibility you are undertaking in developing a data strategy and then executing it in your organisation, and some summary points that are here as reminders of some of the key points in earlier chapters.

12.1 CULTURE – IS YOUR STRATEGY HEADING FOR THE BREAKFAST PLATE?

I referred to culture at some length in Chapter 7. This is one of the most important ...