Why You Need A Data Strategy (And Also Why You Don’t)

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Argues that a full data strategy is often the wrong first move and recommends starting with education, ideation or small, aligned artifacts instead. Shows concrete alternatives used by Ascent: a digital North Star to stop 50 scattered projects and align roadmaps at BrewDog, a lightweight data maturity assessment to expose governance or legacy phone system blockers, and tactical pilots (a next‑best‑beer in‑bar prototype) that prove value before committing to transformation.

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1. 0:00Introduction and title apology
2. 1:03When data strategy is needed
3. 5:14What is a data strategy
4. 7:41Clients without data leaders
5. 9:05Real questions about data
6. 11:10Education and ideation themes
7. 13:16Asking why for data strategy
8. 15:00When not to create a data strategy
9. 19:53Alternatives to full data strategy
10. 24:31Summary and Q&A