Defining Success and Aligning on Outcomes

Data management is bigger than managing a maturity framework. Managing a framework only focuses on the tactics to uplift a score. It may or may not drive the experience of using data, trusting data, and overall data management uplift. We need to approach data management with a renewed focus and a fresh set of eyes. We need to build foundational capabilities that scale without doubling the size of our teams as the amount of data doubles every few years. I challenge you to think beyond the maturity framework (although important), into the minds of your stakeholders.

Picture this: You’ve launched a Data & Analytics team. Your team is excited, they are focused, and you’ve even built out a great strategy, easy-to-understand policies, and specific milestones for delivering great results. You execute against that plan and are knocking the delivery out of the park.

There’s just one problem.

No one believes that the...