Addressing top enterprise data issues

Enough of the theory – time to look at some practical examples.

This is a retrospective of the top seven enterprise-wide data issues reported to every senior leadership level (one down from CEO) at that time and how the resolution of these issues was grounded in the Pareto principles and the applied use of the framework.

It would look something like the following figure, with the seven principles and the top seven data issues group:

Figure 8.1 – Seven principles and group of seven data issues

Now, what were these top seven data issues, how were they identified, and how were they business issues, first and foremost, that had been badly enabled with data?

I hope you read the earlier sections where we clearly advised not leading any executive conversation with data issues, but rather with business-centric definitions instead – and that’s exactly what we did. However, we did map them...