This service helps clients establish a Data Strategy at the level of the enterprise or of a specific business unit.  Very often this is tightly connected to clients' Digital Strategy and Digital Transformation efforts.

Common aspects of a Data Strategy include:

• Recognizing existing shortcomings and desires related to data
• Organization of data as Data Assets and Products ("data mesh") - Identification, documentation...
• Data Governance frameworks - Design, implementation, operation/support...
• Master Data Management - Strategy, implementation...
• Data & Analytics Platform design - Shared data capability design (on-premise, cloud), adoption...
        - MDM capability
        - Data catalogue capability
        - Data acquisition capability
        - Data persistence, e.g. data lake
        - Data distribution capability
        - Data science pipeline development capability
        - Data science pipeline execution capability
        - Supporting capabilities/services, e.g. NLP services, identity matching services...
• Shared Data Services - Service facility design, implementation, operation, adoption...
        - Data platform enrichment (dataset scouting, data interfaces)
        - Business intelligence development (reports, dashboards)
        - Data science pipeline development
        - Data quality control development