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dATA STRATEGY
Trying to figure out how to leverage data isn’t easy. Organizations know data is critical to their future, but most don’t have a plan to do anything about it.
Keller Schroeder’s Data Strategy Group partners with clients to address these important challenges.
We collaborate with clients to design, build, & grow impactful and practical data management & analytics competencies in their organizations. Our flexible approach combines strategy & management consulting methodologies with technology & analytics expertise to meet clients where they are, and take them where they want to go, all focused on business value creation.
Data is an asset. It has a lifecycle. The better you manage the lifecycle, the more return you get on the asset. Let’s partner and achieve your returns together.
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- Are you learning from your organizational data? Ask yourself these key questions.
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OUR COMPREHENSIVE APPROACH TO TECHNOLOGY INCLUDES:
Improving business processes through a variety of platforms, visualization, and development tools. Learn More
Prioritizing data and analytics activities with key organizational goals and objectives. Learn More
Certified engineers designing and implementing highly integrated infrastructure solutions. Learn More
Technical recruitment and placement of IT professionals across a multitude of industries. Learn More
ARE YOU LEARNING FROM YOUR ORGANIZATIONAL DATA?
key questions to ask when evaluating your approach to managing data
How do we value data assets & risk?
Do we make decisions using data?
Is the right data available at the right time?
Do we trust data?
Do we have the right data talent?
How do we value data assets & risk?
Competing in the digital age is about generating return on data assets, so your data strategy and corporate strategy must go hand in hand. Focus your data & analytics efforts so they drive your KPI’s and corporate goals.
- Corporate Strategy Alignment
- Innovation Management
- Performance Management
Do we make decisions using data?
Truly data driven organizations have a culture where leaders reinforce reliance on data in decisions and behaviors, and subject matter expertise is augmented by meaningful data insights.
- Business Intelligence & Dashboards
- Culture Planning
- Data Governance
- Narrow AI
- Operations Research
- Performance Management
- Predictive Analytics
Is the right data available at the right time?
Business software systems don’t exist in a vacuum. Getting the right data at the right time depends on your ability to integrate data suppliers and consumers – internally and externally – into a “data exchange” style enterprise architecture in support of business processes.
- Data Governance
- Master Data Management
- Data Design & Modeling
- Integration Architecture
- Business Intelligence & Dashboards
- Lean Process Analysis
Do we trust data?
Inaccurate, conflicting data sets are extremely costly to organizations, suboptimizing operations, reducing management productivity, and increasing risk. Establish collective trust in your data with the tools, methods, and skills to govern your data assets as the source of truth.
- Data Governance
- Master Data Management
- Data Design & Modeling
- Integration Architecture
- Culture Planning
Do we have the right data talent?
Sourcing or growing the right data talent can be challenging, and hiring missteps can stymie progress on analytics initiatives. That’s why it is imperative that you thoughtfully design your future state data organization with solid understanding of key roles and a plan for cultural fit.
- Corporate Strategy Alignment
- Innovation Management
- Culture Planning
- Performance Management
ANALYTICS SERVICES
BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE & DASHBOARDS
Decision makers need timely information on their operations. Business Intelligence & Dashboards automate this information in a clear, accessible, up-to-date manner.
PREDICTIVE ANALYTICS
Use math & statistics to predict business outcomes that support decision-making & action.
OPERATIONS RESEARCH
Use optimization algorithms and simulation to inform complex business choices that maximize profit with our operations research.
NARROW AI
Incorporate machine learning and deep learning models into software tools to automate recurring business decisions.
STRATEGY EXECUTION SERVICES
CORPORATE STRATEGY ALIGNMENT
Data Strategy IS Corporate Strategy. Don’t embark on data and analytics initiatives without a strong tie to your organization’s strategic direction.
INNOVATION MANAGEMENT
Innovation and change go hand in hand with analytics, requiring deliberate management focus.
CULTURE PLANNING
Culture is the primary barrier to analytics & data strategy. Adopt our proven methodologies for technology implementations and managing complex change.
LEAN PROCESS ANALYSIS
Don’t apply analytics to broken business processes. Analyze and fix them first, using the principles of LEAN.
ANALYTICS PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT
Analytics initiatives must be managed as a portfolio of ROI generating projects leveraging targeted investment in new capabilities. Use our proven methodologies for managing this process.
PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT
Analytics won’t help if your organization doesn’t know how to measure business success. Establish the right metrics and incentive structures to encourage the behaviors that drive performance.
TECHNOLOGY ROADMAPS
Analytics initiatives must be managed as a portfolio of ROI generating projects leveraging targeted investment in new capabilities. Use our proven methodologies for managing this process.
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DATA LIFECYCLE MANAGEMENT SERVICES
DATA VALIDATION & RISK MITIGATION
Your data has inherent value as both asset and liability. Monetize this value and manage liability strategically for competitive advantage.
DATA GOVERNANCE
Strategically develop the oversight, policies, standards, and business rules to manage and improve your organization’s Data Quality.
MASTER DATA MANAGEMENT
Competing versions of data create uncertainty and reduce productivity. Establish & certify your Master Data as the single source of truth.
DATA DESIGN & MODELING
Data sets have varying degrees of logical structure, depending on business purpose. As scope and complexity increase, designing and modeling this structure becomes imperative for the data to even be useful to the business.
INTEGRATION ARCHITECTURE
Business software systems don’t exist in a vacuum. The better these systems are architected to integrate effectively, the greater the business performance.
Leverage our expertise to achieve your strategic objectives.
DATA STRATEGY PARTNERSHIPS
We maintain close relationships with industry-leading technology vendor partners.
Keller Schroeder has a proven track record of successful projects to ensure you invest in the right solution to meet your business or organizational objective. That is why we have partnered with other customer-centric firms to provide a consistent, high level of knowledge and complete solution experience.
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