Data is a strategic asset for organisations to drive informed decision making, evidence based policy making, digitisation of services and innovation through insights.
Data maturity is the extent to which an organisation utilises the data they produce. The more data is utilised by an organisation, the more data mature they are.
Data Maturity Assessment provides the best practices roadmap to help organisations manage their data effectively. The assessment helps organisations implement an evolved data strategy and solution to transform their data analytics processes to deliver business insights consistently.
It helps organisations move from data rich to insight rich and enables Data Management as a corporate capability.
Benefits linked to Data Maturity Assessments
A greater awareness and appraisal of data and data activities within an organisation, addressing key elements of data management such as processes, procedures and standards.
A greater understanding amongst staff of concepts, principles and practices of data management.
A standard, uniform approach by which an organisation’s performance around data management can be assessed and re-assessed (in the future), in order to identify track implementation of improvements.
An assistance in the identification of gaps/opportunities or potential risks that exist in current data management processes and procedures.
Structure of a Data Maturity Assessment
These 11 interconnected components follow the DAMA Data Management Book of Knowledge 2.0 (DAMA-DMBok) and touch on important components of Data Management.
Data Governance
Data Storage and Operations
Data Modelling & Design
Metadata
Data Architecture
Data Security
Data Warehousing & Business Intelligence
Reference & Master Data Management
Data Quality
Document and Content Management
Data Integration & Interoperability
Data Maturity Scale
The assessment enables your organisation to position itself on the maturity scale, reflecting on current maturity level and setting a target for the future.
The image below shows the five progressive maturity levels linked to an organisation. In isolation, they are not that meaningful, but contrasting the current maturity level and the target help drive priority areas of work.
Derilinx Action Planning Workshop
Linking current capability level and target for the future, the action planning workshop will help identify and prioritise key initiatives that will drive improvement in data maturity and deliver tangible benefits.
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