Learn to Conduct a Step-by-Step Data Maturity Assessment

Aiming to improve an organization’s data strategy, it becomes important to pin point the weaknesses, strengths and to define goals to aim at.

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A recipe for a successful strategy depends on making its steps clear and measurable. Similarly, these steps are taken when preparing for a marathon. You begin with defining your training strategy and assessing your current capabilities and the distance goal. You start with shorter runs, gradually extending the distance, and adjusting your pace and breathing accordingly. Each mile marks a new milestone or level on your roadmap towards your target.

Similarly, a well-defined data strategy provides the how and the what for achieving the organization’s data objectives. Implementing the appropriate data maturity assessment and model provides the measurable objectives and progress toward delivering on that strategy. This approach ensures a clear path towards turning the goal of data excellence into an achievable target.

Defining data strategies, I needed to research and understand how organizations assessed their data maturity level. Expectedly the topic was not that popular across the data community. That could be due to the variability and difficulty data professionals…