Your company needs a data strategy because data matters to any company, regardless of size or sector. Data strategy consulting from Fast Data Science can help your company extract value from your data in the long term. Your company’s data could be one of your biggest assets and if you don’t have a data strategy in place, it is vital to engage a data strategy consultant. Read more here: What is a data strategy?
Data strategy consulting
Five facets of data strategy
At Fast Data Science, we approach data strategy consulting from five angles:
- Planning and discovery: we need to identify the data used in your organisation and understand its purpose and potential
- Data storage: we need to establish a plan for managing the storage of data and how it will move between systems.
- Data exploration and analytics: this is where the exciting AI happens.
- Risk and compliance management: we need to ensure that our data is safe, that GDPR, HIPAA, and other relevant data protection legislation is followed, and that our AI is accountable.
- Change management: this encompasses communication within the organisation, that we have a good executive sponsor, do we have change champions within the organisation, etc.
The five facets of data strategy consulting at Fast Data Science.
What makes a good data strategy?
A good data strategy should be tailored to your organisation and robust against disruption. A data strategy should take into account the current business needs and potential for growth, and the possibilities that AI can bring in the future.
Starting out on a venture
If you are starting on a new venture and know that data science and AI will form part of your business model in the future, it’s worth getting some data strategy consulting at the outset to ensure that your data processes and data collection is on the right track.
AI strategy and machine learning strategy
Deep learning may appear as the best tool to be used in all projects, however big or small, when in reality most problems in data science are best solved with other simpler tools. We will discuss the pros and cons of the various options with you in a data strategy consulting session.
Data gathering
Normally before starting a data science project you must also have enough data gathering procedures in place. Is your website logging customer events? Does your app log users’ activity? Are you saving recorded images or overwriting them? With the advent of GDPR you will also need to make sure your agreement with your users or customers permits you to log the data we need. A data strategy consultant can identify any of these areas which you may have overlooked.
Cloud or on premise?
Then there is the question of where and how you should build, host and deploy your solutions. We can work with on-site or cloud providers according to your organisation’s preferences.
If you engage us for data strategy consulting at the beginning of a data science project, we will help you to make informed decisions and avoid sinking cash into approaches that later prove to be dead ends. We will help to set up a long-lasting data strategy which will be robust even in the face of future changes in your technology stack or business direction.
