A short, actionable strategy
Tied to what you deliver first, with the decisions it asks your executives to take. Approved in week four.
Data Strategy and Leadership
Data Strategy and Leadership
Data Foundations Delivered.
Foundations for AI, proven in eight weeks.
The service
The foundations an AI programme assumes but hasn’t paid for: a delivery-led strategy, named owners, a working data forum, architecture on your existing platform, and a joined-up data product live by week eight. Unsure of your foundations? Start with the Health Check.
What you get
What lands on your desk.
A governance model that runs
Named owners, decision rights central and local, and a data forum set up and run with you, then handed over.
A target architecture
On the platform you already have or have chosen, with a twelve-month roadmap.
One joined-up data product
Chosen in week one with its users, and live by week eight, built with your team.
Who you’ll speak to
Sam Richmond
Co-founder & Chief Executive Officer · CITP FBCS
A Chartered Fellow of the BCS, having held roles such as Group Head of Technology & Data and Global Head of Business Intelligence. Sam sits on the Industry Advisory Group to the AI Assurance Consortium and leads Infin8’s data strategy services.
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Other services in Data Strategy and Leadership.
- Data Strategy Health Check Where your data stands, in five days.
- Data Platform Decision A platform choice you can defend.
- Data Trust Recovery Figures you can defend, in eight weeks.
- Fractional Data Leadership A data leader in place, quickly.
How to buy
Fixed before you sign.
Fixed price
Every service is fixed once scoped at a scoping call, before you sign.
- Budget certainty for approval
- We carry the overrun risk
- Payment tied to delivery
Time and materials
For evolving scope or high-speed delivery.
- Pivot priorities without renegotiation
- Start immediately
- Scale resource to real demand
Hybrid
Fixed price for the core deliverables, time and materials for what evolves.
- Certainty for the roadmap
- Room for change
- One contract, two modes
Frameworks
Public sector clients can appoint us through the SparkDPS, AIDPS and SpaceDM frameworks.
Accreditations
Cyber Essentials · RISQS · JOSCAR
Independence
On this work we take no commission, hold no reseller or partner agreements, and our fee does not change with the recommendation.
Scope the Data Foundations Delivered.
A short call to pin down what you need to decide, and by when. You leave with the shape of the engagement, fixed before you sign.