Courses

Learn 6 easy steps to Win at Data Governance. You'll learn:

1. How to engage your business leaders and excite them about data
2. What the most important types of data are, and how to use them
3. How to diagnose common data challenges, and what to do about it
4. Where data drives enterprise value
5. What data governance means for your firm
6. The 6 Easy steps you need to take to embed data governance in your firm

This course is laid out in short, bite-sized lessons with practical examples you can immediately implement. If you're struggling to understand where data governance fits your business, this course is for you.

Less than 1 in 10 firms can put both hard and soft dollar values on the data they use. This leads to under-investment in data products and data improvement programs, as executives back other initiatives. If you're frustrated by being unable to get funding for your next data project, you need this course.

We have identified 7 fail-proof techniques to put dollar values on data. This course will help if:

1. You want to stop spinning your wheels and focus your work on data that delivers real value
2.  You need to justify your next budget but have no idea where to begin
3. You've been tasked with creating data products to improve revenues, cut costs, or reduce risk
4. You're interested in monetising data assets and becoming a profit centre

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Are you one of the 2% of firms that have aligned their data strategy with the business strategy? Or are you locked out of strategic decision making, like 80% of data leaders, relegated to low-level order taking work? This course is designed to propel you from the backroom to the boardroom and will help you solve the following challenges:

• Do you want to run a data-driven business, but don't know where to start?
• Do the words "Data Strategy" sound meaningless to you?
• Are your executive's eyes rolling when you talk about data?
• Have you spent months putting your data manifesto together, only to get knocked back for funding and resources?
• Are you fed up reading theory and want real-world examples that you can immediately apply?

Then this course is for you.

Building on the concepts taught in the 6 Easy Steps to Win at Data Governance course, this takes the approach a layer deeper to expand on the 6 Easy Steps - allowing you to make data governance a reality in your firm. The course covers:

1. Running data governance as a business program
2. How to create data governance principles that work
3. Designing and deploying policies to enact the principles
4. The roles, responsibilities, accountabilities and decision rights needed to govern data
5. The organisational functions you need to implement data governance
6. How to set appropriate and achievable metrics and KPIs to sustain long-term change

This course is an advanced course that should only be taken after you've learned the 6 Easy Steps to Win at Data Governance