Delivering Quick Wins with Impact

As you launch your data transformation program, your team will quickly and consistently deliver results. Because of the nature of data governance, and skeptics of the practice of data translating into real, measurable results, you will need to shorten the time to first value as much as possible, and crisply and consistently show progress. In this chapter, I will walk you through how to create momentum with quick wins, how to communicate these wins effectively to and with the business, and how to ensure the business stakeholders understand how your results translate into their success.

In my experience, data leaders who bet exclusively on big, transformational platforms often lose stakeholder interest by the time their results are realized. You can’t wait until your platforms or capabilities are launched to claim victory. In my experience, big-bang solutions are critical, but they can’t be everything. No stakeholder group or company...