Our Services
Data Strategy Consultancy
A data strategy your board will fund and your delivery teams can use.
We produce costed, sequenced data strategies for UK public sector and financial services organisations: a clear current-state baseline, an agreed target, and a roadmap with owners and milestones that survives contact with an annual budget cycle.
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Overview
Plenty of organisations have a data strategy. Far fewer are delivering one. The common failure is a strategy written as an aspiration rather than a plan: no baseline, no sequencing, no costs, no named owners, and no link to the outcomes the organisation is actually measured on. We write data strategies to be delivered. That means starting with an honest assessment of the current estate and capability, agreeing a target that is achievable within realistic funding, and sequencing the roadmap so that each phase produces something usable. We work with your finance and commercial colleagues from the outset, so the strategy arrives with a business case that can pass internal scrutiny rather than needing to be retrofitted six months later.
What we deliver
Key Capabilities
- 01Data maturity assessment and current-state baseline
- 02Target operating model and data organisation design
- 03Costed, sequenced multi-year data roadmap with named owners
- 04Target data architecture and platform option appraisal
- 05Business case support structured to the HM Treasury five case model
- 06AI and analytics readiness assessment
- 07Benefits framework, KPIs and measurement plan
- 08Alignment of the data strategy to departmental outcome delivery plans
Our Approach
How we work.
- 1
Baseline
We assess your data estate, capability and governance as they are today, and establish what the organisation is actually trying to achieve with data.
- 2
Define
We agree the target: the operating model, architecture direction and capabilities needed, tested against realistic funding and delivery capacity.
- 3
Sequence
We build a costed roadmap in phases, each one delivering usable capability, with dependencies, owners and decision points made explicit.
- 4
Mobilise
We support the business case, help shape the first delivery phase, and stay available through the early stages so the strategy is not handed over and forgotten.
Evidence & Reading
Related case studies and reading.
- Case studyHMRC: Anti-Money Laundering Supervision modernisation
- Case studyCabinet Office: IBCA secure cloud-native data platform
- InsightAI data platforms for government: why clean data comes first
- InsightPublic sector AI implementation: moving pilots to production
See how our services come together for government in public sector consultancy.
Next Step
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