Data Insights: Setting the Data Strategy
The impact of the global pandemic has accentuated the need to increase and improve the use of data as an innovation tool especially as the challenge of progressing innovative business solutions and ideas has become unquestionably more difficult.
Developing and implementing an effective Data Strategy is an essential step for any organisation looking to innovate and apply the use of data into business processes. However, even though management may be committed to making progress, it can be difficult to know where to begin. This theme is aimed at management teams and senior technical individuals, and will form a starting point from which to consider the evolution of the data strategy and how to flex the implementation of that strategy.
Agenda
10:00 Welcome & Introduction | Steve Caughey, Director, NICD
10:10 Key note from PWC
Setting a COVID responsive Data Strategy | Steve Mills, Director Data & Analytics & Ben Alexander, Senior Manager in Data Analytics
10:30 The Industry Perspective of the Changing Data Strategy | Gareth Powell, Insights and Analytics Director TalkTalk
10:40 Q&A Panel
11:20 Technical Workshop
How to embed effective cultural and business change as part of a Data Strategy | Will Stevenson, Manager Data & Analytics and Sally Nelson, Manager Data & Analytics, PwC
11:50 Wrap Up | Steve Caughey, Director, NICD
Key Note
Setting a COVID responsive Data Strategy
PwC discussed the impact that COVID-19 has had on the business' data strategy, recognising that the way businesses utilise their technology and data has been significantly impacted by the change in working patterns, the need to reprioritise analytics and have insight at the ready, and a change in technology infrastructure needs going forward.
Businesses need to be more agile to a change in priorities, and we hear first hand examples of how organisations are reinventing, rethinking and innovating their use of data as part of their data strategy in light of the pandemic.
Workshop
How to embed effective cultural and business change as part of a Data Strategy
One of the most important parts of an effective data strategy is how it is embedded into the business teams and process. In this webinar, PwC lead an interactive session taking us through some of their experiences and approaches to embed sustainable cultural change when designing and implementing a data strategy.
