Friday, November 22African Digital Business Magazine

Tag: business strategy in South Africa

Business, Main

C-suites should drive data strategies to avoid disconnect with business strategy

Enterprises must prioritise security, governance and user adoption for successful implementation By Lee Wearne, Senior Business Intelligence Consultant at Insight Consulting The urgency of implementing enterprise data management strategies comes from an acute awareness that businesses need to put their data to work effectively to influence business decisions and efficiency, and ultimately help steer the direction of the business. C-suites understand that this urgency is not a fad, that an effective enterprise data strategy is a fundamental component of their digital transformation journeys.  However, unless the data strategy is driven from the top of the organisation, there will - at some point - become a discrepancy between the business and data strategy. This disconnect can result i...