โšกWhy Your #DataStrategy Needs a Reality Check: The Power of #DataMaturity Assessments

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What in this week's newsletter resonates with you most?

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February 2025 (Part 4)

Why Your Data Strategy Needs a Reality Check: The Power of Data Maturity Assessments The Data Maturity Assessment Are You Driving Your Data Strategy Blindfolded? Imagine planning a cross-country road trip without checking your gas gauge, your engine light, or even if you have four working tires. Sou

A data strategy is a comprehensive plan that outlines how an organization will utilize data to achieve its business goals. It serves as a roadmap for collecting, managing, analyzing, & leveraging data effectively. Best practices for developing a robust data strategy:

๐Ÿ’กAlign with Business Goals
๐Ÿ’กInvolve Stakeholders
๐Ÿ’กAssess Data Maturity
๐Ÿ’กPrioritize Data Initiatives
๐Ÿ’กDefine Data Governance
๐Ÿ’กand so many more...

https://foxconsulting.co/post/the-best-practices-for-developing-a-data-strategy

#datastrategy #datagovernance #datamaturity #businessgoals

The Best Practices for Developing a Data Strategy

A data strategy is a comprehensive plan that outlines how an organization will utilize data to achieve its business goals. It serves as a roadmap for collecting, managing, analyzing, and leveraging data effectively. Here are some best practices for developing a robust data strategy:1. Align with Business GoalsImportance:A data strategy should be tightly aligned with the overall business goals and objectives of your organization. This ensures that data initiatives directly support and drive busin

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Don't forget to reserve your spot this week for our lunchtime session on assessing organisational #datamaturity.

We're really looking forward to hearing from Yasmin Friedmann from Neath Port Talbot County Borough Council and Keith Scott from Myeloma UK about their experiences of assessing data maturity and how it's helped them map out their journey to improvement.

Join us (it's free)!

Wed 13 Nov | 12-1pm

https://www.dataorchard.org.uk/events/taking-your-organisations-data-maturity-to-the-next-level-nov24

#publicsector #nonprofit #data

Introduction to data maturity assessment for organisations โ€” Data Orchard

Learn how organisational data maturity assessments can be used to understand and map your journey to data maturity.

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There's nothing like hearing real-life stories to bring some things to life. We know this applies for #datamaturity

So we can't wait for next week, when we'll be hearing from Yasmin Friedmann from Neath Port Talbot County Borough Council and Keith Scott from Myeloma UK about their experiences of assessing data maturity and how it's helped them map out their journey to improvement.

Join us (it's free)!

Wed 13 Nov | 12-1pm

https://www.dataorchard.org.uk/events/taking-your-organisations-data-maturity-to-the-next-level-nov24

#publicsector #nonprofit #data

Introduction to data maturity assessment for organisations โ€” Data Orchard

Learn how organisational data maturity assessments can be used to understand and map your journey to data maturity.

Data Orchard

We've recently updated our website to include more detail on our tiered #nonprofit pricing for organisational #dataMaturity assessments, as well as pricing for commercial organisations ๐Ÿ‘ฉโ€๐Ÿ’ป๐Ÿ’ท

Take a look and do get in touch if you'd like more information https://www.dataorchard.org.uk/organisational-dma-packages-and-prices
#data

Data maturity self assessment tool โ€” Data Orchard

Weโ€™ve developed this valuable tool to help you assess where your organisation is on the data maturity journey, benchmark against others in the sector, and identify areas for improvement. Choose between two free options or our more sophisticated organisational and agency plans.

Data Orchard

We recently worked with Clan Childlaw, #Scotland's #law centre for #children and young people, who wanted to better use data to improve their services ๐Ÿง’๐Ÿ“Š

We provided our #dataMaturity assessment and #data strategy support to help plan out a road map for change https://www.dataorchard.org.uk/case-studies/clan-childlaw-data-strategy

Using our Data Maturity Assessment to inform data strategy at Clan Childlaw โ€” Data Orchard

We supported Scotlandโ€™s law centre for children and young people, Clan Childlaw, to complete a data maturity assessment, develop a data strategy, and then take action to implement their strategy.

Data Orchard

FAIR data principles say that data should be easy to find, beyond the data standards is a need to write descriptions that consider the users that will be reading those descriptions.
Our new post: Crafting Clear & Discoverable Data Descriptions explores some of the guidance on this topic:

https://www.epimorphics.com/crafting-clear-and-discoverable-data-descriptions

#DataManagement #FAIRdata #Standards #DataQuality #DataManagement #DataMaturity #DataCatalog #MetaData

Crafting Clear and Discoverable Data Descriptions - Epimorphics

In todayโ€™s data-driven landscape, the integration of data fuels unprecedented value. Organisations strive to optimise their data assets, emphasising the principles of Findability, Accessibility, Interoperability, and Reusability (FAIR). These principles are a priority for the UKโ€™s Geospatial Commission, ONS and the wider government via the Data Maturity Assessment framework. Theyโ€™re also important to collaborations  like [โ€ฆ]

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This week weโ€™ve completed a number of interesting client project technical reports, continued the development work on an emerging product, started the design phase of a new client project and dug into the details of our carbon footprint data for our financial year.

A packed week for the team, thanks for everyone that we've chatted to and worked with this week. Have a lovely weekend

#ThisWeek #ConnectedData #DataMaturity #DataStandards #DataEngineering

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Weโ€™ve posted recently about some of our open data and other data and tech projects
(see: https://www.epimorphics.com/blog )including themes including data standards, real time data, data APIs, data maturity, data management, Chat GPT and data engineering, our current projects will expand on this soon.

#ODISummit2023 #ConnectedData #FAIRdata #AI #DataScience #LinkedData #DataStandards #RealTimeData #DataAPIs #DataMaturity #DataManagement #ChatGPT #DataEngineering

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