Outline your data vision
Plan your new data-informed culture
Communicate your changes
Data Strategy
Support to outline how you’ll manage, govern and use your data
Have you gained the investment to create a data-informed culture, and now need to outline how you’ll deliver it?
Now, we turn what you've learned from your Business Case into a complete data strategy. This roadmap will show you how to approach data to align it to your institution’s business goals, including:
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A clear vision for how your data aligns with your institution’s strategies
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The approach for managing data, governed data, and deriving value from data assets
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An approach to communicate the changes effectively with key decision makers
By making your strategy clear, you’ll gain the pathway to a successful implementation
Your practical, tailored & measurable roadmap
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Gain a vision for how your data infrastructure will support your institution's goals
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Promote a culture where data access is valued, trusted and used for data-informed decisions
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Communicate the benefits data can bring to your institution
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Define the priority of your data sources to fit your institution's priorities
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Connect your institution through its data seamlessly for operational efficiency
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Evaluate your data integrity and success to demonstrate your strategy's impact
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Outline the business processes, steps, milestones and resources needed for success
What's included?
Four collaborative sessions (2 in-person and 2 virtual)
These sessions with our experts will help you to:
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Better understand the value of data and how it can be used to achieve your goals
Assess your institution's current data maturity and data architecture
Develop a data strategy that is aligned with your institution's overall goals
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Create a roadmap for implementing your data strategy to integrate data
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Communicate your data strategy to key stakeholders
A clear vision, actionable plan, and effective communication strategy
We’ll create a plan for your data based on the insights gained from the collaborative sessions. The plan will recognise and enable your institution’s people, processes and technology aligned to your wider short and long term goals.
Support from ConnectED's team of experts
The ConnectED team will be there to support you throughout the process, from developing your data strategy to implementing it.
The questions your strategy will answer
Why are we making this change?
This section helps you articulate the reasons for the shift towards a data-informed culture. It guides you in making a compelling case for change and aligning this change with the strategic intent of your institution. It also helps you identify the data needed to enable and support this change, and the relationships that need to be deepened.
What’s the vision for our data?
This section helps you define your aspirations for data at your institution. It guides you in choosing your priorities, setting out a compelling end state, and thinking strategically about your data. It also helps you envision what will be different and how that will feel, and who is included in this vision.
What value will data bring?
This section helps you target the benefits of your data strategy. It guides you in identifying the capabilities you will have, the benefits you will see, who and how they will be received, how this will differentiate you, and why the benefits will be sustained.
What principles guide how we treat our data?
This section helps you manage data as an asset. It guides you in identifying the principles you need, how they will be applied, who will be responsible for them, and what happens if they are ignored.
What is the scope and reach of our data?
This section helps you set the boundaries and assign priority to your data. It guides you in defining the scope of your vision, what data is included, which stakeholders will be involved, and what you will do first.
How do we align our data practices?
This section helps you spend your data budget wisely. It guides you in identifying what you are aligned to, how you will continue to show value, how you will remain relevant, how you get involved, and how you work with others.
How will we measure our success?
This section helps you track your progress. It guides you in identifying how you are measured, who sets your strategic priorities, when and why you course correct, and what KPIs you can link to.
What is our data culture?
This section helps you define the behaviours for a data culture. It guides you in identifying your data culture, how you communicate it, who are the mentors, what investments are needed, who is involved and what they need, and how you assess the impact.
What do we do next?
This section helps you build a sustainable data capability. It guides you in operationalising the strategy, creating your communications plan, developing your training and development plan, making the strategy sustainable, and identifying who will be accountable.
Explore our range of services
DISCOVER
Market Research & analysis
Helps you understand your data better by providing real-world insights as to where your institution is on its data readiness pathway and helps to inform the solutions and strategies you need.
ENVISION
Data Vision
Helps your institution craft a comprehensive Data Vision that clarifies the role of data in achieving strategic aims, ensuring that your data assets are not just managed but are actively driving progress and innovation.
MAINTAIN
Data Evolution
Helps empower your teams and enhance your data governance operating model for sustained success. We provide support, mentoring, templates, and data monitoring routines to ensure effective data management that aligns with your institution's goals. By engaging stakeholders, we help build capacity and foster a data-driven culture within your organisation.
DEFINE
Business Case Development
Helps equip you to have the right conversations that drive understanding of the value in data, its alignment to your institution’s overall objectives, and helps drive momentum for investment of data initiatives.
DELIVER
Implementation
Helps put your Data Strategy into action, establishing data governance and promoting guardianship, and creating a data-driven culture for sustainable ongoing improvement across your institution. Receive a plan to action yourself or get ongoing support from our team.
