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The Data Value Blueprint

The enterprise system for ensuring data delivers measurable business value.

Despite massive investment, most data and AI initiatives fail to deliver ROI — not because of technology, but because organizations lack the capabilities, governance, culture, and role clarity required to turn data into measurable business outcomes.

Empower your people, teams, and vendors to unlock real value from data — using methods developed by Chris Bradley, a world-leading DAMA and Data Management authority.

Proven in complex, data-intensive organizations across pharmaceuticals, insurance, banking, wealth management, energy, and oil & gas.

Why Data & AI Initiatives Fail

Organizations invest heavily in:

  • Data platforms
  • AI solutions
  • Cloud migration
  • Analytics tools

Yet ROI remains disappointing.

The real issue?

Not data.

Not technology.

But:

  • Misaligned roles
  • Weak data governance disciplines
  • Capability gaps
  • Vendor mismatch
  • Cultural resistance
  • Lack of measurable improvement

Technology amplifies capability.
If capability is weak, investment waste grows.

Introducing the Data Value Blueprint

A complete enterprise system that helps you:

  • Measure your data capabilities across 11 DAMA disciplines
  • Assess business, data and technology capabilities of your teams.
  • Identify the right people for 7 critical data value roles
  • Benchmark internal and vendor teams
  • Align mentoring and development
  • Continuously re-measure and improve
  • Compare performance against industry peers

This is not a survey.
It is data value creation blueprint.

What You Gain

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Clarity

You know exactly:

  • Where you are strong
  • Where you are exposed
  • Where investment is wasted

No guessing. No politics. No assumptions.

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Faster ROI

Focus resources where capability gaps block value. Stop investing in tools before fixing the capability foundation.

3

Reduced Risk

Prevent failed AI programs, compliance issues, and governance breakdowns before they happen.

4

Better Talent Decisions

Know:

  • Who should lead
  • Who should mentor
  • Who needs development
  • Which vendors are truly capable
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Measurable Improvement

Run improvements. Reassess. See progress numerically. Show the board evidence — not optimism.

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Competitive Benchmarking

See how your organization performs compared to industry peers. Gain confidence — or urgency.

How It Works

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Step 1: Measure Reality

Assess your organization using a framework aligned with DAMA International 11 data management disciplines. Evaluate: Data governance, Data quality, Architecture, Metadata, Security, And more. Plus: Business capability maturity, Technology enablement level, Cultural alignment.

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Step 2: Align Capability

Identify: 7 key data value roles, Best-fit individuals internally, Vendor team strengths & weaknesses, Mentoring relationships. You align people to value — not titles to hierarchy.

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Step 3: Strengthen What Matters

Launch: Targeted capability building, Focused training, Mentoring programs, Governance strengthening, Vendor optimization. Based on measured gaps — not assumptions.

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Step 4: Reassess & Benchmark

Re-measure maturity. Track numerical improvement. Benchmark against your industry. Turn capability development into a measurable business asset.

Grounded in Proven Data Management Principles

The Data Value Blueprint is grounded in globally recognized practices from DAMA International and is using methods developed by Chris Bradley, a world-leading DAMA and Data Management authority.

Proven in complex, data-intensive organizations across pharmaceuticals, insurance, banking, wealth management, energy, and oil & gas.

It combines:

  • Practical enterprise experience
  • Governance best practices
  • Capability science
  • Role-based diagnostics
  • Continuous improvement methodology
Chris Bradley

Chris Bradley

DAMA Expert

Global data management authority with over 40 years of experience. Vice President of Professional Development at DAMA International, inaugural Fellow of DAMA CDMP, and author of DMBOK 2.

Read more about Chris Bradley

This is not theory.
It is battle-tested data value creation blueprint.

Who It's For

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For Team Leaders & Hiring Managers

  • Build the right data team with confidence — every role has the skills and business fit it truly needs.
  • Hire smarter — match candidates to teams and roles accurately, reducing costly mistakes.
  • Develop your team faster — assess current capability and prioritise training that delivers measurable impact.
  • Understand your own fit — gain clear, actionable insights to grow in your role and career.
  • Select individual vendors with clarity — investment goes to proven capability, not promises.
Assess Your Team
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For Data & Digital Leaders in Enterprises

  • Know exactly where you stand — benchmark maturity across 11 data management disciplines with clarity and confidence.
  • See real progress — track measurable improvement over time and demonstrate ROI to executive stakeholders.
  • Focus resources where they create value — strengthen weak areas and amplify true strengths.
  • Build the right ecosystem — choose partners based on team strength, delivery capability, and upskilling potential.
  • Gain competitive advantage — understand how you compare to peers and where to invest for differentiation.
Assess Your Organization

What Makes This Different

Most solutions:

  • Assess tools
  • Assess technology
  • Assess data maturity in isolation

The Data Value Blueprint assesses:

  • People
  • Teams
  • Vendors
  • Governance
  • Culture
  • Roles
  • Improvement trajectory

It integrates them into one continuous system.
That is why it drives value — not just insight.

The Data Value Blueprint – Pricing

Invest in Measurable Data Value

Most data and AI initiatives fail — not because of technology, but because organizations lack aligned capabilities, clear roles, and measurable improvement processes.

The Data Value Blueprint provides clarity, alignment, and actionable insight, helping your people, teams, and vendors turn data investments into measurable business value.

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1. Professional Blueprint (Individual)

€490

per assessment

Optional yearly re-assessment: €290

What You Get:

  • Personal capability diagnostics across Data, Technology & Business domains
  • Alignment analysis with 7 critical data value creation roles
  • Strength and capability gap report
  • Clear, prioritized development recommendations

Additional Use Cases:

  • Assess individual employees or candidates
  • Test one or a few individual vendors before onboarding to see how they would enhance your team

Outcome:

Clarity on where an individual creates value — whether internal hire, candidate, or vendor — and actionable insights to grow impact.

Team Capability Solutions

Build, align, and continuously improve your data teams — with measurable outcomes.

Whether you want a quick snapshot or a continuous system, we have the right option for your organization.

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Option A – One-Off Team Diagnostic

€6,900 – €12,900

Small Team (≤8): €6,900

Medium Team (9–20): €12,900

Custom pricing for larger teams

What You Get:

  • Current team capability level across Data, Technology & Business domains
  • Identification of the most suitable individuals for 7 critical data value roles
  • Mentoring alignment insights to understand team dynamics
  • Structured capability gap report with prioritized focus areas

Additional Use Cases:

  • Benchmark job applicants before hiring
  • Evaluate vendor teams for capability and fit

Outcome:

Immediate clarity on your team's strengths, gaps, and mentoring potential — ideal for short-term projects, hiring decisions, or vendor evaluation.

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Option B – Team Blueprint License (Annual Subscription)

€9,900 – €19,900

Small Team (≤8): €9,900 / year

Medium Team (9–20): €19,900 / year

Custom pricing for larger teams

Everything in Option A – One-Off Diagnostic, plus:

  • Continuous reassessment & progress tracking – monitor team capability over time
  • Capability evolution dashboard – see team strengths, gaps, and growth at a glance
  • Annual mentoring alignment updates – ensure mentoring stays effective as roles evolve
  • Vendor impact tracking – know which external partners actually raise capability
  • Candidate integration — benchmark job applicants and individual vendors and see how they improve team performance

Outcome:

Turn talent selection, team development, and vendor management into a data-driven, continuous capability system.

Identify the right people, optimize mentoring, and track measurable improvement — all in one place.

3. Enterprise Assessment Options

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Option A – One-Off Enterprise Diagnostic

From €49,000

(pricing based on organizational scope)

What You Get:

  • Includes everything in Option A – One-Off Team Diagnostic
  • Role alignment for critical Key Data Management positions — identify who should lead, mentor, and execute
  • Enterprise-wide capability benchmarking across 11 DAMA-based disciplines
  • Clear visibility of your current Data Management maturity
  • Industry benchmarking & executive reporting — see how you compare to peers
  • Capability improvement recommendations — actionable steps for immediate impact

Outcome:

A clear, actionable picture of your enterprise readiness, with an immediate roadmap for capability improvement and measurable business value.

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Option B – Enterprise Blueprint License™ (Annual Subscription)

From €69,000

/ year (pricing based on organizational scope)

What You Get:

  • Includes everything in Option B – Team Blueprint License™ (Annual Subscription)
  • Role alignment for all critical Key Data Management positions — identify leaders, mentors, and executors
  • Continuous reassessment & progress tracking — track enterprise-wide capability evolution over time
  • Capability evolution dashboards — visualize team and role development, and see how initiatives impact progress toward target capability levels
  • Vendor team impact tracking — monitor which vendor teams truly raise your organization's capability
  • Industry benchmarking & executive reporting — compare performance against peers and track measurable improvement
  • Strategic capability roadmap — actionable steps to continuously strengthen enterprise data capabilities

Outcome:

Turn your enterprise data capability into a continuously improving, measurable, and strategic asset.

Ensure all teams and vendors are aligned to create business value

See how initiatives drive capability toward your target levels

Demonstrate measurable improvement and ROI from data & AI initiatives

4. Enterprise Partnership – Global Solutions

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4. Enterprise Partnership – Global Solutions

From €120,000

annually

A fully tailored engagement for organizations seeking a bespoke approach to data capability across teams, business units, and regions.

What You Get:

  • Tailored use of your own data to assess capabilities across global teams and units
  • Fully tailored solutions for multiple teams, divisions, or organizations
  • Customized training programs aligned with local and global needs
  • Executive workshops to align strategy, governance, and capability across the enterprise

Positioning Note:

This package is fully bespoke — scope, pricing, and approach are defined in collaboration with your leadership team.

Build with AI

Turn Data and Ideas into Working AI Products — Fast

We help organizations and founders move from ideas, data, and strategy to working AI-powered prototypes in weeks, not months. Our AI-accelerated approach puts real data at the core from day one, enabling fast validation, learning, and decision-making before heavy investment.

From Idea to Prototype — Fast Validation

For startups, seed funding, and internal innovation

We help founders, innovation teams, and product owners quickly turn ideas into tangible AI prototypes that can be shown, tested, and validated early.

Ideal for:
  • • Seed-stage startups and founders preparing for funding
  • • Internal innovation and new product ideas inside large organizations
  • • Early validation before committing to full-scale development
  • • Perfect for rapidly launching webpages and landing pages — this page is a live example.
Benefits:
  • • A concrete prototype to support funding, investment, or internal approval
  • • Faster feedback from customers, partners, and decision-makers
  • • Early validation of problem–solution fit
  • • Reduced risk before committing to a long development roadmap

It is much easier to sell an idea — internally or externally — when there is something real to show.

Rapid AI Prototypes That Strengthen Customer Engagement & Tendering

For enterprises, customers, and RFPs

We build rapid, end-to-end AI solutions and prototypes that keep customers and management engaged while verifying that the underlying data is fit for purpose. Click to see an example AI product

These prototypes complement traditional tender documentation, making proposals clearer, more convincing, and easier to evaluate.

Ideal for:
  • • Customer-facing solutions where momentum and trust matter
  • • Management-driven initiatives requiring fast, visible progress
  • • Tendering and RFP processes where differentiation is critical
  • • Pre-development phases before traditional software teams take over
Benefits:
  • • Combine written tender documents with a working AI prototype
  • • Make requirements, assumptions, and value tangible
  • • Maintain stakeholder and customer interest with visible progress
  • • Validate data quality, availability, and integration early
  • • Enable rapid changes before locking scope and requirements
  • • Provide a strong, validated foundation for traditional software development

Instead of asking customers or evaluators to imagine the solution, you allow them to experience it.

What This Enables

Across both use cases, our AI-accelerated approach delivers:

  • • End-to-end AI-powered prototypes built on real data
  • • Early checks of data feasibility, quality, and value potential
  • • Faster learning cycles and clearer go / no-go decisions
  • • Reduced delivery risk and wasted investment
  • • Stronger tender responses and more confident customer decisions
  • • A smoother transition into full-scale, traditional software development

The result: faster validation, better decisions, and stronger outcomes — all with data at the core.

Professional Data Management Trainings

Enhance your data management skills with world-class training programs, led by industry experts such as Chris Bradley, Mike Ferguson, Alec Sharp and many more.

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Live Training with Chris Bradley

Request personalized training sessions with Chris Bradley, CDMP Fellow and DAMA UK expert. Get hands-on guidance tailored to your organization's needs.

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Tailored Training

Custom training solutions designed specifically for your organization. Tell us your specific needs and we'll create a training program that fits perfectly.

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2-3 days • Tailored pricing

Course Purpose

With Data at the forefront of business, the need for organisations to create a comprehensive Data Strategy is greater than ever, with both the increase in data regulations and the focus on data driven business strategies.

This course will provide concrete practical approaches to get you started on your Data Strategy, the typical contents of a Data Strategy, and the ways in which your supporting data governance framework can be organised.

Course Topics
• Components of a Data Strategy
• Establishing Goals & Gaining Buy-In
• Data Management Maturity Assessment
• Data Governance: Managing people, Organisation & Process
• Prioritising Business critical data & capabilities
• Building the right technical architecture
• Defining an actionable roadmap
• Culture, Communication, Sustainability & Education
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Comprehensive 2-3 day training program

Learn practical approaches to data strategy

Ready to discover your true data capabilities?

Start today with an assessment for people, teams, vendors or your whole organization — and begin improving with evidence, not guesswork.