Data Excellence
How Data Leadership Can Drive Stronger Organizational Performance
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
How can data leaders build long-term value in the era of AI?
Data Excellence by Roberto Maranca is the strategic guide for Chief Data Officers, VPs, Directors and consultants responsible for delivering sustained, measurable data performance. Combining tactical insight with long-term vision, this book shows how to embed data leadership across the enterprise and drive real organizational value, beyond just tools or tech.
Framing the data leader as a performance coach, it offers a clear methodology for building scalable data capabilities that align with AI-driven transformation, governance and business goals.
You'll learn how to:
- Build a culture of data performance through behavior and mindset shifts
- Strengthen change execution and align initiatives across business units
- Deliver measurable value through data productization and cost-benefit analysis
- Evaluate risk and control functions across the data lifecycle
- Apply performance diagnostics including use-case readiness and initiative mapping
With practical tools and strategic depth, Data Excellence equips senior data leaders to future-proof their organizations and lead with impact in an increasingly AI-powered landscape.
Themes include: data leadership, organizational performance, AI-era transformation, data culture, value generation, data governance
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Table of contents
- List of figures and tables
- Preface
- 01 Is it all about data?
- 02 The data excellence approach
- PILLAR I Strategies and tactics for cultural change
- 03 The data culture
- 04 Introducing data roles
- 05 Data charter, data disciplines and data fitness assessment
- 06 The coxswain’s megaphone: Communications and data
- Data Workout 1 The first prioritized data excellence initiatives portfolio
- PILLAR II How to change the way change is done
- 07 The nature of change
- 08 The data domain model
- 09 The Data Excellence Operating Model
- 10 Establishing the enabling capabilities
- 11 Data risks and control environment
- Data Workout 2 DeXOM circuit workout
- PILLAR III Generating (and sustaining) value
- 12 The productization of data
- 13 Value from data: When the data athlete is at their best
- Data Workout 3 Effort vs rewards: Calculating data debt and planning for remediation
- 14 Total data for total performance
- Acknowledgements
- Index