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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’.

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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

Yorkshire Water faces similar pressures and demands as many other utilities, and has long realised that data is a core asset in helping them to deliver smarter network and customer operations.

This need to utilise their data assets to help exploit and capitalise their physical assets led them to undertake a complex, multiyear data transformation. This case study explains the vital delivery role provided by The Oakland Group in executing a data strategy across a broad set of areas within the data transformation initiative.
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.

Improving data governance and data management would provide a way for the organisation to understand and manage business risk, unlocking the value in data assets and enabling innovation.
Case Study Network Rail CDO

Network Rail CDO

Network Rail own, operate and develop Britain’s railway infrastructure. That’s 20,000 miles of track, 30,000 bridges, tunnels and viaducts, and the thousands of signals, level crossings, and stations. They also run 20 of the UK’s largest stations.

As a business they identified information as one of their most significant corporate risks and had recently appointed a Chief Data Officer (CDO) to meet this challenge. Whilst the CDO was senior in status, she required a supporting team and infrastructure to assist the new role.
Case Study Designing a Data Strategy and Roadmap for RAW Charging

Designing a Data Strategy and Roadmap for RAW Charging

RAW Charging provides electric vehicle charging solutions tailored to meet the specific needs of various locations and sectors across the UK.
RAW stands out for its unique approach, recognising that each location requires a distinct EV solution rather than a ‘one size fits all’ method. Many leading UK companies choose their services for this reason.

The Oakland Group were selected to help the RAW leadership team create a complete vision, strategy and roadmap for how data will transform their business in the coming years.
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 Protection Act 2018, and the Freedom of Information Act 2000, so they had a unique opportunity to set the tone for responsible and innovative data use in the public sector.
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