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Data Strategy Consulting and Services

Transform your business data strategy with Oakland’s expert data solutions. Our experienced data strategy consultants will help you create robust frameworks, governance plans, and roadmaps.

Free yourself from silos, wasted costs, poor performance, and non-compliance. Say goodbye to complex data functions and hello to seamless data management that enhances user, operator, and stakeholder experiences.

Let us handle the tech choices and put data at the heart of your business strategy, ensuring high-quality data management and analytics for strategic growth and performance.

Want to know more about data strategy? Read our guide, ‘How to write your data strategy’.

Elevate Your Data Strategy

Whether your goal is data-driven digital, analytics, or performance transformation, we bring diagnostic and design expertise to help you craft a compelling, aligned data strategy that all your stakeholders can support.

Data Strategy FAQs

What is a data strategy?

A data strategy is a comprehensive plan that outlines how an organisation will collect, manage, and utilise data to achieve its business objectives. It encompasses data governance, architecture, quality, and analytics, ensuring all data activities align with the business goals and provide actionable insights.

Why is a data strategy framework important?

A data strategy framework is crucial as it provides a structured approach to developing a strategy. It ensures that data supports business goals, enhances decision-making, and promotes efficiency and consistency in data handling processes, reducing risks and increasing data value.

Read our blog to find out the purpose of a company’s data strategy.

How can data strategy consultants help my business?

Data strategy consultants bring expertise in developing and implementing tailored data strategies, frameworks, and governance plans. They help identify data-related challenges, optimise data management processes, and ensure that your data practices align with business objectives, driving improved performance and informed decision-making.

What is a data strategy roadmap?

A data strategy roadmap is a detailed, step-by-step plan that outlines the initiatives, actions, and timelines needed to achieve your data strategy goals. It serves as a guide to implementing data initiatives, prioritising tasks, and tracking progress to ensure alignment with your overall business strategy.

Looking to create a data product-focused roadmap and strategy? Read our blog for more information.

How does data governance improve data quality?

Data governance establishes policies, procedures, and standards for managing data effectively. It ensures proper data management, compliance, and quality control, leading to more accurate, reliable, and consistent data. This, in turn, supports better decision-making, reduces risks, and enhances the overall value of data within the organisation.

For more information, head to our data governance service page.

Strategy case studies

Welcome to our Data Strategy Case Studies Showcase, where we’re excited to share some of the success stories of how our data-driven strategies have made a positive impact. These real-world examples highlight how our tailored solutions have tackled challenges and delivered tangible business benefits to our clients by improving efficiency, enhancing customer experiences, and boosting overall business competitiveness.

Case Study Evolving next generation analytics capabilities with Parcel2Go

Evolving next generation analytics capabilities with Parcel2Go

The starting point – ‘where are we?’ By modern standards, Parcel2Go had already achieved a great deal but was still keen to build on its foundation of past success and look to the future. Parcel2Go invited Oakland to help chart their next phase of data-driven growth, starting with a comprehensive ‘Data Capability Assessment’ and data…
Case Study Executing a Data Strategy for Yorkshire Water

Executing a Data Strategy for Yorkshire Water

Mapping out the Data Strategy Oakland started by helping Yorkshire Water with an early series of data strategy workshops. The goal of these workshops was to review the current business and operational objectives that Yorkshire Water was keen to address, then map these aspirations against possible directions for exploiting their data in the future. Working…
Case Study UK Power Networks Improving Data Governance and Data Management

UK Power Networks Improving Data Governance and Data Management

UK Power Networks (UKPN) had the ambition to become a truly data-centric utility where data was treated as an essential business asset. While many in the business acknowledged the importance of data, there was no consistent view of how to create a true data culture.
Case Study Designing a Data Strategy and Roadmap for RAW Charging

Designing a Data Strategy and Roadmap for RAW Charging

RAW Charging is perfectly positioned within the fast-growing market of vehicle charging solutions for the hospitality, retail and leisure sectors. Investors also recognised these are exciting times for RAW with their high-growth ambitions. Antin Infrastructure Partners came on board through a successful capital fundraise that will support a £250 million electric vehicle (“EV”) installation plan…
Case Study Setting the Standards for Responsible Data Use with the ICO’s Data Strategy

Setting the Standards for Responsible Data Use with the ICO’s Data Strategy

The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) is an independent regulator in charge of upholding the public’s information and data privacy rights. Data is core to their organisation, and they had an ambitious business strategy (ICO25) that needed underpinning with a tailored data strategy. The ICO regulates and enforces the UK General Data Protection Regulation, the Data…
Case Study Improving Sustainability Reporting for Vistry Group

Improving Sustainability Reporting for Vistry Group

Vistry Group is the UK’s leading provider of affordable mixed-tenure homes. As a responsible developer, they work in partnership to deliver sustainable homes, communities, and social value, leaving a lasting legacy of places people love. Operating across 26 regions, they build homes all over the UK through their respected brands; Bovis Homes, Linden Homes, and…
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