Assessing readiness for launch
Before you prepare to launch, you need to pause and assess the current state. No, I don’t mean from a data management maturity perspective, but the business readiness. If you head into your launch plan assuming that the business is more ready to change than you assessed it to be, you will face resistance and will be frustrated early. If you underappreciate the readiness, you might find yourself selling it on a transformation it is already bought into. This can be equally as bad. If the business isn’t ready, you might be pushing for change they don’t think they need. If it is beyond ready, you’ll be talking about change when they are already wanting to see the change happening. You lose credibility and support in both scenarios. That’s why assessing the readiness is so important.
The degree to what you need to assess has several factors to consider:
- Do you have an established data function?
- How trusted...