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The Data Playbook
12 Steps to Systematically Achieve Data & Analytics Excellence
Organizations rely on their IT leaders more than ever to deliver the transformation and innovation needed to thrive in today’s ever-evolving tech landscape – but IT teams are often stuck in firefighting mode and held back by immature processes. Info-Tech’s revolutionary and road-tested IT Playbooks offer a systematic and interconnected improvement program to unleash IT’s potential to drive their organization’s success.
Data impacts every aspect of your organization – and, with the right plan, data can power all your IT transformation efforts. Use the Data Playbook to leverage data for strategic decision-making and operational efficiency. Take advantage of actionable insights on data governance, architecture, analytics, and visualization best practices to improve performance and build a data-driven culture.
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1. The Data Playbook – Program Overview
An overview of our 12-step, calendar-aligned, actionable framework to unlock the value of your data and analytics, supported by a matrix of methodologies, tools, and templates that can be adapted to your organization’s unique starting point. Prioritize, plan, delegate, and track Data Playbook initiatives as you work through each step, with guidance from Info-Tech analysts as needed.
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About Info-Tech
Info-Tech Research Group is the world’s fastest-growing information technology research and advisory company, proudly serving over 30,000 IT professionals.
We produce unbiased and highly relevant research to help CIOs and IT leaders make strategic, timely, and well-informed decisions. We partner closely with IT teams to provide everything they need, from actionable tools to analyst guidance, ensuring they deliver measurable results for their organizations.
What Is a Blueprint?
A blueprint is designed to be a roadmap, containing a methodology and the tools and templates you need to solve your IT problems.
Each blueprint can be accompanied by a Guided Implementation that provides you access to our world-class analysts to help you get through the project.
12 Steps to Excellence in Managing Data & Analytics
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Steve Willis
Ari Glaizel
Related Content: Business Intelligence Strategy
Search Code: 107943
Last Revised: May 16, 2025
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