Today’s data strategy leaders are navigating a puzzle of heightened expectations — adopting artificial intelligence, driving data literacy, and cloud migration, to name a few. Each new challenge adds another piece to an already intricate picture.
But what if they didn’t have to solve it alone?
The heads of data management, analytics, and governance at 40+ of the world’s largest companies have joined the Enterprise Data Strategy Board, a home for unbiased, real-time benchmarking.
This private, vendor-free peer group offers year-round, expertly facilitated discussions and insights to help data strategy leaders stay ahead, adapt swiftly, and make informed decisions. Designed for busy professionals, it ensures every interaction is valuable.
But how do we actually solve the problems keeping data leaders up at night? Let’s walk-through how we support senior data management, analytics, and governance leaders every day.
1. Personalized, Full-time Support to Solve Your Biggest Challenges
Our Membership Directors act as expert advisors offering personalized, full-time support, and they don’t stop until members get the answers they need.
As Membership Director for the Enterprise Data Strategy Board, Sheryl Martin assesses members’ programs, priorities, and roadblocks and identifies areas where the community can help.
She knows the exact challenges members are facing and how to facilitate the one-on-one connections and nowhere-else conversations to solve them.
All members need to do is ask a question, and Membership Directors take care of the rest.
2. We Turn Your Data Questions into Immediate Value
The only thing certain in the data analytics space is uncertainty. It can often feel like piecing together a puzzle without having the full picture in front of you.
When you’re constantly facing new hurdles and demands, you need answers in hours or days, not weeks. That’s why the Enterprise Data Strategy Board offers fast, efficient, and unlimited service.
Plus, members set the agenda. Unlike conferences or webinars, where the conversations are designed to increase attendance, our calls and discussion topics are hand-curated by Membership Directors on demand based on members’ most pressing needs.
3. How Members Use Unique Access to Expert Knowledge for a Competitive Edge
The resources that are available through the Enterprise Data Strategy Board can’t be found anywhere else. But what does personalized support look like for members at a practical level?
The real-world solutions come from real conversations with peers who truly understand the complexities.
Recently, the Director of Global Analytics at a large manufacturing company reached out through the community’s private question and answer forum, looking for a more efficient way to refresh their Power BI dashboard.
Their dashboard had over 40 million records that needed to be refreshed daily, causing timeouts and 5+ hour processing times.
It became clear that this member wasn’t alone. Quickly, several members reached out to offer advice, including a Director of Business Intelligence who shared how they tackled this issue:
- Parallelization in the import job
- Loading data as a star schema with all master data dimensions as their own tables to minimize the transactional record size
- Structuring data for optimal performance
Members have a lot to say about Power BI. That’s why we organize quarterly group Power BI Huddles where members can ask questions, present use cases, and learn best practices.
4. Answers to Your Questions Come from Leaders at Some of the World’s Biggest Companies
Not all peer groups set strict membership criteria. In fact, many have little or no restrictions around seniority or company size.
Only heads of data management, analytics, and governance at large enterprises and their senior team members are allowed in The Enterprise Data Strategy Board. We don’t allow the conversations to be diluted by insights that aren’t relevant to your role.
Above all, we never allow vendors, agencies, or consultants to participate (Though, we talk about them all the time). It’s paramount to keeping the community unbiased and candid.
Every answer in our community comes from people like you — senior leaders at companies like yours, with problems like yours.
Enterprise Data Strategy Board members include: Walmart, McDonald’s, Clorox, Vanguard, Best Buy, UPA, USAA, Workday, and more.
5. A Chance to Connect with Your Peers In-Person at our Board Meetings
On top of the year-round support members have access to, we also bring senior leaders together in person at our Board Meetings.
We know there are a lot of conferences and events to choose from, but our Board Meetings stand out — people have even postponed honeymoons to be there!
It’s a unique opportunity to connect with other senior decision-makers running programs like yours. Just the community, vendors are never allowed to join, and the conversations are always off-the-record.
At the Fall 2024 Board Meeting, members benchmarked AI governance, master data management, holistic data quality, managing data personas, and more.
Ready to Complete Your Data Strategy Puzzle?
The Enterprise Data Strategy Board is the only confidential space where senior leaders come together to tackle the toughest challenges in real-time.
Our on-demand service, peer-driven insights, and personalized support, set us apart from any other resource available.
Don’t navigate these complexities alone. Join a community of your peers and get the answers and connections you need to stay ahead.
