What is a communications plan? A communications plan is a tool that provides a way to structure communication and engagement planning to: Who needs to create a communications plan? Every data governance centre of excellence should create a communication plan to support its data governance foundation roadmap, data strategy, and business-as-usual activities. This is usually …

Finding the right person to be a successful Data Governance Lead within your firm needn’t be a difficult or daunting task. In this article, I show you how to pick someone who will help lead your Data Governance initiative to success. How does the Data Governance Lead fit into the Data Governance Centre of Excellence? …

What is a gap analysis? A gap analysis assesses the differences between an organisation’s actual and expected (or desired) performance. The term “gap” refers to the space between “where you are”  – the present state, and “where you want to be” – the target or future state. Some consultants refer to a gap analysis as …

This is an interesting and challenging question which frequently comes up in conversations with senior law firm stakeholders. The reason for the question is sound. These stakeholders have become aware that data (whatever that means to them) isn’t working for the Firm (i.e. isn’t meeting Partner or operational expectations). Law firms are essentially people businesses, …

The space between roadmap creation and execution Roadmaps are the output of a strategic planning process. Execution is getting on and doing it. The less talked about but critically important step is what happens in between these two stages. Starting an implementation is where a data governance lead can become overwhelmed. Senior stakeholders either underestimate …