Four steps to trusted data
Every data strategy engagement follows this four-phase model — adapted to your organisation's maturity, size, and starting point.
Define
Strategy, vision, KPIs, and business objectives. Maturity baseline to understand where you are today.
Govern
Frameworks, domain ownership, data standards, and decision rights. The rules that make data trustworthy.
Catalogue
Asset inventory, lineage mapping, quality classification, and metadata standards. Know what you have.
Visualise
Dashboards, reports, decision intelligence, and scorecards. Turn governed data into board-ready insight.
Six areas of data strategy expertise
Data Strategy & Operating Model
Define your data vision, strategic objectives, and the operating model that will sustain them — including roles, responsibilities, and governance cadence.
Governance Framework Design
Build living governance documentation: data domains, ownership accountability, stewardship communities, and decision-making processes that actually get used.
Data Asset Cataloguing
Inventory your data assets with source, owner, classification, quality scores, and dependency mapping. Know what you have, who owns it, and how trustworthy it is.
Data Quality Programmes
Define quality dimensions, baseline current state, set targets, and build the operational programme to systematically improve data quality over time.
Strategic Dashboards & Decision Intelligence
Board-ready dashboards that track maturity progress, quality trends, governance health, and strategic KPIs. Data you can actually make decisions with.
Data Architecture Advisory
Expert advisory on data architecture decisions — from data warehouse to lakehouse, from ETL to streaming — aligned to your governance and strategy goals.
Three engagement models
2-week intensive to define your data strategy framework and immediate priorities.
- ✓Data strategy framework
- ✓KPI definition
- ✓Maturity baseline assessment
- ✓Executive readout
12-week programme delivering full governance design, cataloguing, and Trident Transform setup.
- ✓Full governance framework
- ✓Data asset catalogue
- ✓Trident Transform configuration
- ✓Stewardship community design
- ✓Training and handover
Multi-month embedded advisory for comprehensive data transformation.
- ✓All governance programme deliverables
- ✓Embedded advisory
- ✓Capability building
- ✓Quarterly reviews
- ✓Ongoing optimisation