Data Excellence: How Data Leadership Can Drive Stronger Organizational Performance
This book provides a powerful, intuitive methodology on how to approach data leadership in a way that will steer organizations to deliver effective, improved and sustained data performance in the era of AI.

Data Excellence
shows how data leaders can strategize and deliver effective data capabilities, value generation and performance for their organization. Both strategic and tactical, it positions data leaders as personal trainers responsible for preparing and coaching their organization to professional excellence and capabilities through a long-term sustainable performance plan that futureproofs an organization in the face of the challenges of AI. It covers the three key pillars organizations must address to achieve data excellence: culture change, improving the way change is done and generating, measuring and sustaining data value for the organization.

This book walks readers through key tasks and components such as data fitness assessments, data risks and control environments, data productization, data debt evaluation and interlocking with control functions. It offers exercises to test data performance, such as strategic initiatives independency analysis, addressing data use cases end to end and perfecting the cost benefit analysis of a data programme.

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Data Excellence: How Data Leadership Can Drive Stronger Organizational Performance
This book provides a powerful, intuitive methodology on how to approach data leadership in a way that will steer organizations to deliver effective, improved and sustained data performance in the era of AI.

Data Excellence
shows how data leaders can strategize and deliver effective data capabilities, value generation and performance for their organization. Both strategic and tactical, it positions data leaders as personal trainers responsible for preparing and coaching their organization to professional excellence and capabilities through a long-term sustainable performance plan that futureproofs an organization in the face of the challenges of AI. It covers the three key pillars organizations must address to achieve data excellence: culture change, improving the way change is done and generating, measuring and sustaining data value for the organization.

This book walks readers through key tasks and components such as data fitness assessments, data risks and control environments, data productization, data debt evaluation and interlocking with control functions. It offers exercises to test data performance, such as strategic initiatives independency analysis, addressing data use cases end to end and perfecting the cost benefit analysis of a data programme.

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Data Excellence: How Data Leadership Can Drive Stronger Organizational Performance

Data Excellence: How Data Leadership Can Drive Stronger Organizational Performance

by Roberto M Maranca
Data Excellence: How Data Leadership Can Drive Stronger Organizational Performance

Data Excellence: How Data Leadership Can Drive Stronger Organizational Performance

by Roberto M Maranca

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Overview

This book provides a powerful, intuitive methodology on how to approach data leadership in a way that will steer organizations to deliver effective, improved and sustained data performance in the era of AI.

Data Excellence
shows how data leaders can strategize and deliver effective data capabilities, value generation and performance for their organization. Both strategic and tactical, it positions data leaders as personal trainers responsible for preparing and coaching their organization to professional excellence and capabilities through a long-term sustainable performance plan that futureproofs an organization in the face of the challenges of AI. It covers the three key pillars organizations must address to achieve data excellence: culture change, improving the way change is done and generating, measuring and sustaining data value for the organization.

This book walks readers through key tasks and components such as data fitness assessments, data risks and control environments, data productization, data debt evaluation and interlocking with control functions. It offers exercises to test data performance, such as strategic initiatives independency analysis, addressing data use cases end to end and perfecting the cost benefit analysis of a data programme.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781398614796
Publisher: Kogan Page, Ltd.
Publication date: 10/28/2025
Pages: 264
Product dimensions: 6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.59(d)

About the Author

Roberto M Maranca is currently Data Officer for the Energy Management Business of Schneider Electric and prior to that, held C-suite leadership roles as the Group Data Officer for Lloyds Banking Group and Chief Data Officer at General Electric. He has been listed multiple times as one of Data IQ 100's most influential people in data and is a regular keynote speaker at leading data and business conferences. He is based in London, UK.

Table of Contents

** Chapter - 01: Is It All About Data?; ** Chapter - 02: The Data Excellence Approach; * Section - PART ONE: Pillar I- Strategies and tactics for cultural change ** Chapter - 03: The Data Culture; ** Chapter - 04: Introducing Data Roles; ** Chapter - 05: Data Charter, Data Disciplines and Data Fitness Assessment; ** Chapter - 06: The Coxswain’s Megaphone – Communications and Data; ** Chapter - 00: Data Workout 1; * Section - PART TWO: Pillar II- How to change the way change is done; ** Chapter - 07: The Nature of Change; ** Chapter - 08: The Data Domain Model; ** Chapter - 09: The Data Excellence Operating Model; ** Chapter - 10: Establishing the Enabling Capabilities; ** Chapter - 11: Data Risks and Control Environment; ** Chapter - 00: Data Workout 2; * Section - PART THREE: Pillar III-Generating (and sustaining) value ** Chapter - 12: The Productization of Data; ** Chapter - 13: Value from Data: Data Athlete's Best; ** Chapter - 00: Data Workout 3; ** Chapter - 14: Total Data for Total Performance
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