Discipline
Data and analytics
Making the data hold what is going to be built on top of it and making the report change a decision.
5 services in this discipline
This is yours if
Three signs that this is yours.
- A project stalled the moment it reached the data.
- A quarter missed target without any indicator anticipating it.
- In the committee, the discussion is about where the number came from, not what to do with it.
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Data foundations audit
The six dimensions used to measure the quality of a domain. Pick the domain that worries you most (customers, products, contracts) and score it from one to five on each. In one afternoon you have your first picture.
- Completeness. What percentage of records have the fields that matter filled in. Count, do not estimate.
- Accuracy. Take fifty random records and verify them against reality. It is tedious and it is the only one that cannot be simulated.
- Timeliness. How long it takes for an event in the world to appear in the system. If it is longer than the decision lasts, the data arrives late even when it is correct.
- Uniqueness. How many times the same customer or the same product appears. Look for duplicates on two different fields and compare.
- Consistency across sources. The same figure in two systems: does it match? If not, which one governs and is that written down?
- Lineage. Can you say where one specific number in your report came from? If not, any argument about it is unresolvable.
Behind all six dimensions there is a single root cause. Who owns that domain? Not which area uses it: who decides what is correct. If nobody holds that authority, no vendor can solve it for you.
It comes from Data foundations audit. Every service in this discipline brings its own.
The 5 services in this discipline
Will your data hold what you are about to build on top of it?
Every area has its own version of the same figure and none of them match.
Whether your data can carry what you are about to buy, measured against a rubric and with the cost of closing each gap.
See the situationLeading indicator scorecardWhich indicator would have warned you before the quarter went down?
By the time the financial number turns red, the problem is four months old.
Operational indicators that lead your financial result, with the lead time demonstrated on your own data and not asserted.
See the situationDecision grade reportingDo your reports produce decisions, or only meetings?
The committee gets forty pages every month and leaves without deciding anything.
That every page of your report forces a decision, or stops being produced.
See the situationHidden value in your textWhat are your customers telling you that nobody has read?
We have years of tickets and complaints. There is something in there and nobody has had time to look.
Over the text your organization has already accumulated, quantified and verified findings that nobody has at hand today.
See the situationProduction model monitoringIs your model still working as well as it did on day one?
The model still answers. Nobody can prove it answers as well.
The measurement, the threshold and the shutdown criterion installed and handed over running to your team. We do not stay watching the dashboard.
See the situationThe other disciplines
AI strategy
12AI governance and compliance
9Automation and agents
8Cybersecurity and resilience
4Critical operations and crisis
5Mergers, separation and diligence
4Cost of AI and software
5Infrastructure and platform
5Or see it by the cycle: Vanguard, Forge and Taskforce. Or by the question you arrive with, in the seven questions. And if you already know the name, there is the full list.
What is the decision you have in front of you this week?