DATA DATA DATA – September 2023

Do you want to grow your business, innovate, drive efficiencies, and/or create new revenue streams? Of course, you do! Well data is the starting point…and this is the only data-focused roundup you’ll ever need!

In this issue, I’m going to share a few new things with you…hot off the press…just for you ever so lucky readers.

FIRSTLY, FROM BLUE TO MULTI-COLOUR CUBE CRAZINESS…

After six years of DATA³ being all different shades of my favourite colour blue…we’ve rebranded. To recognise that the business is no longer all about me, here are some facts…

We’ve delivered 200+ projects…
…for 70+ clients
In 3 global regions

Powered by 25+ people
Winning 15 awards
Since 2017

Phew! It’s been a rollercoaster ride, that’s for sure. But, thankfully for everyone, long gone are the days when I was involved in everything, made decisions on everything and knew everything that was going on in our business. So, it’s well overdue but please let me introduce you to our amazing UK leadership team who, for the last 6+ months, have been taking the business from strength-to-strength and driving our growth faster than ever before:

Sam Holwell who leads on clients
James Parr who leads on tech
Helen Ward who leads on marketing
Andrew Jackson who leads on operations

And there’s me on sales…

All supported by an amazing group of data consultants, data architects, data engineers, data analysts, and data visualisers as well as our operations/marketing teams. Plus there’s the team at DATA³ Aotearoa and the team at DATA³ Central Europe.

SECONDLY, ZOOMING UP THE DATA TRANSFORMATION CURVE…

I meet business leaders all the time and sometimes my experience chatting with them about data can feel like a confessional…

“Our data is the worst you’ll have ever seen Hels”

“Seriously Hels, we have so many spreadsheets”
“I’m embarrassed to say that it takes weeks to get an answer to a simple question such as ‘how many new customers did we win in September?’”
“I can’t believe we’re not using the latest tech”
“Everyone’s talking about ChatGPT and yet we’re wrestling with Excel!”
And so on.

Sometimes they’re right…sometimes their data is the worst we’ve ever seen! Often it’s not. Often it’s the same level of data disconnection and the same amount of manual processing that you’d see in most organisations.

So, we’ve refreshed our Data Transformation curve to help our clients understand three things…

Where are they now?
Where do they want to get to?
What’s the route to get from where we are now to where we want to get to?

We use this to define a super clear vision for their organisation and to define exactly what great looks like. Then we develop a fully-costed implementation plan to achieve their vision.

Want to know where your organisation is on the Data Transformation curve? Of course you do. Drop me a line at hello@data-cubed.co.uk

THIRDLY, WHO WANTS A DATA MATURITY BADGE?

Building on our Data Transformation curve, our super clever team in DATA³ Aotearoa have come up with our new Data Maturity Assessment. This is a next-level assessment of an organisation’s data situation across 6 dimensions:

Architecture – this is the type of technology you have in place
Governance – this is how well data is controlled and managed
Quality – this is how clean, accurate and timely the data is
Visualisation – this is how data is presented to viewers
Culture – this is how well is data is used within an organisation
Innovation – this is all about harnessing data to create a competitive advantage

We use a combination of facilitated workshops and data reviews to calculate a score for each dimension, which combines into an ultimate score for each organisation. We can then work with the organisation to understand what score they’d like to achieve within a defined timescale, and then create the plan.

And you even get a badge at the end!

Want a Data Maturity Assessment, your personalised score and even a badge?! Of course you do. Drop me a line at hello@data-cubed.co.uk

Thank you for reading…I’ll be back soon with more data news.

Remember…if you’re in data hell, I’m data Hels!

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Here’s what the DATA³ team do on a sunny pre-autumn evening…