Establishing feedback loops
As you deliver the right capabilities for your executive sponsor, it is critical that you continue to meet with them during your delivery. Since you should be creating the enterprise data strategy while you are delivering for your executive sponsor’s domain, you should hold at least quarterly enterprise data committee meetings to share progress, prioritize additional needs of the company, and garner additional support from the rest of the domain leaders. One of the biggest mistakes you can make is meeting at the wrong frequency. There are two extremes to consider:
- Meeting too often, without meaningful updates or progress to share
- Meeting too infrequently, and the committee does not remember what you committed to deliver and loses interest
It is your job to find the right audience and the right frequency to match your enterprise needs. I recommend quarterly meetings at first unless there is a great deal of urgency (for example, regulatory...
