Optimizing for outcomes
As you set out to design an organizational model and operational model for how your company will deliver data management and analytics outcomes that matter, you must begin with the end in mind. You are not building a single department; you are building a data-empowered enterprise. Long before you begin to design an organizational model, you must define what capabilities you need to deliver. The capabilities are a major outcome of the conversations you held when building your coalition of advocates out of the process outlined in Chapter 2, How to Build a Coalition of Advocates.
Use case
In one of my previous companies, there was a large and critical focus on the quality of data used in reporting. As a result, much of our data strategy was anchored on one major capability: rearchitecting the data infrastructure to drive a streamlined and curated data ecosystem that could produce high-quality reports with a high degree of reusability of common data elements...