Why you should baseline data management maturity

While you are off Chapter 2, Building a Coalition of Advocates, and Chapter 3, Building a High Performing Team, you should also launch a data management maturity assessment (ideally, concurrently). This process will help you understand the company’s data maturity horizontally across the organization leveraging a standardized approach, which will help highlight any blind spots you or your team did not uncover and help identify any biases (unconscious or not) you may have had in assessing the company’s needs. Additionally, it will help identify areas where the stakeholders are aware of the maturity level for their areas or are unaware of the maturity level. This can help you build your relationship with your stakeholders by helping them understand the state of the union.

Foundational reasons to baseline

You will need to start by understanding and communicating the purpose of this assessment. Your communications will...