Data strategy

We help organisations work out where they want to get to with data and how they are going to get there.

Often our work includes a discovery phase including a data maturity assessment alongside workshops and interviews with staff. Sometimes it involves an audit of data, a skills review and looking under the bonnet at the tools and systems in place. Our facilitation and workshop techniques enable clients to first set their ambition and vision; and then prioritise and plan their roadmap towards achieving this.

Featured projects

Featured
Using our Data Maturity Assessment to inform data strategy at Clan Childlaw
Using our Data Maturity Assessment to inform data strategy at Clan Childlaw

We supported Scotland’s law centre for children and young people, Clan Childlaw, to complete a data maturity assessment, develop a data strategy, and then take action to implement their strategy.

Implementing a data strategy at Ambitious about Autism
Implementing a data strategy at Ambitious about Autism

We used robust evidence and a collaborative approach to develop a new data strategy and accompanying roadmap for Ambitious about Autism which helped get buy in from senior staff and increased understanding about data among staff.

Developing data maturity at Blue Cross
Developing data maturity at Blue Cross

Following their completion of a data maturity assessment, Data Orchard supported Blue Cross to develop their data maturity by conducting workshops with staff, reviewing their data strategy, and helping to develop a skills framework.

Supporting Tai Calon to develop their new data strategy
Supporting Tai Calon to develop their new data strategy

Tai Calon is a housing association based in Blaenau Gwent in Wales. The organisation had set a clear ambition to radically improve customer satisfaction and wanted to ensure that its data infrastructure would support this ambition.

Supporting Reigate and Banstead Council with a Data Improvement Plan
Supporting Reigate and Banstead Council with a Data Improvement Plan

Reigate and Banstead Borough Council asked us to work with them on some deliverables within the data and insight project. In particular, they asked us to support them to develop a Data Landscape Map and a Data Improvement Plan.

Data strategy development with Valleys to Coast Housing
Data strategy development with Valleys to Coast Housing

We supported a housing association to understand where they are with data, where they want to be and how to get there.

The Cart Shed impact management project
The Cart Shed impact management project

We spent a transformational year with the Cart Shed helping to focus, align, and mobilise the organisation towards greater impact.

Building data capabilities at the Bracken Trust
Building data capabilities at the Bracken Trust

Data Orchard worked with The Bracken Trust over a twelve-month period to analyse and diagnose needs and develop a road-map for building the organisation’s data capabilities.

Supporting Age UK Herefordshire and Worcestershire with their impact measurement
Supporting Age UK Herefordshire and Worcestershire with their impact measurement

We worked alongside staff and trustees from Age UK Herefordshire and Worcestershire, to help them use data to articulate the sustained and meaningful impact the organisation has on older people’s lives.