Data Strategy Framework: How To Implement One & Scale It For Success

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Data-driven organizations have a comprehensive data strategy that links key initiatives and data, ensuring they inform goals, objectives, and mission. Building and maintaining a data strategy requires both strategic and financial commitment from the entire organization. Therefore, before anyone builds their data strategy, they will need to secure support from leadership and their IT department, who will advocate and help orchestrate critical changes to scale the framework across the enterprise.

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