Enterprise Data Strategy

Turn Fragmented Data Into Strategic Business Value

A strategy that makes your data foundation genuinely understood, agreed, funded,
and ready for AI, not just written down.

Enterprise Data Strategy

Turn Fragmented Data Into Strategic Business Value

A strategy that makes your data foundation genuinely understood, agreed, funded, and ready for AI, not just written down.

Most data strategies sit with IT, not the boardroom, and no shared business vision connects it to the organisation’s value drivers.

Poor data and metadata quality costs a typical organisation over $12m a year, and Gartner predicts 60% of AI projects will be abandoned by the end of 2026 because the data underneath them was never made AI-ready. A data strategy isn’t a parallel workstream to your AI ambitions, it’s the foundation they stand on, and should be judged against the same prioritised goals as everything else on the board’s agenda. We help you build an enterprise-wide data strategy, solving these recurring root problems:

No Shared Strategy or Ownership

Data initiatives are prioritised in silos, with no agreed roadmap or senior ownership connecting them to business value.

No Accessible Narrative

Data documentation is often too technical for senior stakeholders to engage with, blocking the sponsorship it needs.

Not Ready For AI

Poor data and metadata quality mean AI inherits the same blind spots, rather than a governed foundation it can safely act on.

End The Data Silos & Own Your Most Strategic Asset

Most data strategies fail before delivery even starts. Not because the thinking is wrong, but because nobody outside the data team ever understood or agreed to it. Our Enterprise Data Strategy service builds a strategy that’s aligned to your organisation’s strategic goals and AI-ready from the outset. Understood by your leadership team, and owned by them, not left to sit unread in an inbox, or left stuck in IT as a cost to be managed.

Over a structured programme, our senior operators work directly with your leadership to define your data strategy against prioritised value drivers, establish senior ownership, and build the investment case it needs to get funded, not just approved in principle. You get a strategy you genuinely understand and champion, a proper foundation for AI, and a practical roadmap for governance and management.

“I normally find documents about data difficult to comprehend but I have read this data strategy document from cover to cover and have understood every word.”

Executive Committee Member,
UK Government Department

Uniting Eight Directors General Around One Data Strategy

HMRC’s technology and data environment had been built around individual tax schema rather than the taxpayer, creating organisational and data silos that were letting significant tax revenue go uncollected, inside a complex supplier and funding environment that made change harder still.

We deployed a senior data strategist with the stakeholder gravitas to guide very senior civil servants through building an Enterprise Data Strategy themselves, working as one team alongside HMRC’s existing suppliers rather than competing with them.

An agreed Enterprise Data Strategy was reached across all eight Directors General, with execution funding secured by successfully adapting the standard Green Book funding process. A follow-on proof of concept tested three priority use cases in a compressed six-week window and proved a collective return expected to reach many billions of pounds, giving HMRC the confidence to allocate further multi-million pound budget. The strategy has since become the foundation for other major initiatives, including Making Tax Digital and HMRC’s wider AI ambitions.

Testimonials

“If you need the voice of the customer in the room… then Damon is your man; knowledgeable, detailed and driven; a great asset to the team.

CTO
TalkTalk

“Digital Works Group turned around an immature and poorly performing sales function. Delivering new sales quickly, while enhancing the foundations of our approach, team, and systems.”

CEO
PXP Financial

“Our marketing technology platform is mission-critical in offering our clients integrated multi-channel solutions. Digital Works Group’s expertise helped us shape our offering for even greater success.”

Marketing Ops Director, Communisis

Built On Real Delivery Experience

A data strategy is only as good as the experience behind it. Generic frameworks and junior analysts can describe what’s wrong with your data, but not what it actually takes to fix it. That’s why every Business Data Transformation engagement is led by senior operators who have owned data at scale themselves, not consultants who’ve only ever advised on it.

Because our operators have personally led data and digital transformations before, they know what a genuinely healthy data foundation looks like in practice, not just on paper. That experience is built into every strategy, every governance model, and every plan we hand you, so what you receive is a credible, evidenced path to value, not a generic scorecard.

This operator-led approach has delivered a verified 95% success rate, including tax-yield recovery worth millions of pounds identified through a data strategy proof of concept for a major UK government department.

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experian
tele2
colt
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semta
bcha
specsavers
pepco
majestic
whitebread
value retail

Have Questions? Let’s Talk

Kapil Chinagi

We welcome a conversation about where your data is holding you back, and where the priority should sit.

Let’s have a no-strings attached exploratory call – it will be the best 10 minutes you’ll spend today.

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