Alignment and agreement

The following steps speak to the alignment and agreement portion of the data management maturity assessment. The execution of the assessment itself is a challenge at times, but the hard work comes in alignment. It’s critical that you gain the support of your stakeholders to ensure that they will buy into the results, support the implementation plan, and partner with you on your data strategy.

[#6] Communicate the results

Once you have the results of your data maturity assessment, you will need to decide how you want to communicate your results. You have options, and there are pros and cons to how you execute this step. You can make the decision on how to communicate these results yourself, as CDAO, or you could employ your enterprise data committee to make this decision collectively. Either can work in your favor equally (I have seen both work well in different companies/industries).

Communicating disaggregated results

Your first option is...