5 Ways to Get Data Fit in 2025
As your business prepares to enhance efficiency and profitability in the new year, an essential part of an updated business strategy should be evaluating the health of your data and reporting capabilities.
To help you get data fit, our data specialists explore five factors that will help get your data in shape for 2025.
1. Conduct a Data Audit:
Before embarking on your data fitness journey, conduct a data audit to evaluate the health of your available business information. Organisations are generally very good at capturing data but typically struggle with managing it effectively. As part of your audit, you should consider:
a. What data do you currently capture?
b. Are you compliant with your country’s data legislation, such as GDPR?
c. Where is it held?
d. What quality is it?
e. What data would you like to have, and where could you get it?
Read more about how to improve your data health in our previous article:
https://www.drghills.co.uk/blog-3-1/data-driven-success-series-part2
2. Create a Data Strategy Roadmap:
Establish and implement a robust data strategy roadmap that outlines how your business should effectively manage and utilise data to mitigate risks and achieve your business goals. Your data strategy should encompass offensive and defensive elements, ensuring data security, compliance, and analytics procedures are being implemented.
Read more about data strategy and data strategy roadmaps in our previous articles:
Key Components of Defensive and Offensive Data Strategy and Data Strategy FAQs
Data Strategy Roadmap: Steps to Developing a Winning Data Strategy.
3. Embrace Machine Learning and AI:
Machine learning and artificial intelligence technologies can automate processes, enhance security policies and procedures, support compliance requirements, assist with marketing functions, and optimise reporting, by leveraging data-driven algorithms. Consider further how AI and Machine Learning can support your business.
Read more on how AI can support your business in our previous article:
5 Ways AI Can Improve Your Business
4. Implement Data Training for Employees:
Ensure your staff has access to ongoing data training that supports their data literacy skills, empowering them to effectively utilise data and reporting information in their roles.
Read more about the importance of data and staff involvement in our previous article:
Building a Data-Driven Culture: How to Get Your Team Onboard
5. Invest in Data Consolidation and Visualisation Tools:
Data is often pulled from multiple systems, such as finance systems, CRM tools, and varying document sources. Managing these multiple data sets can become complex to collate and interpret without the right tools. A robust data consolidation and visualisation solution aggregates these data streams into a single, coherent overview, eliminating the inefficiencies and potential inaccuracies of manual data collation.
Read more about our data consolidation and data management services.
Although this article provides some data fitness hints, taking the first step may feel daunting. We also understand that you may lack the resources or in-house skills to implement these steps efficiently.
At Graeme Hills Consultancy, we can help you navigate the data that your business generates daily. We focus on delivering customised solutions that make complex data understandable, giving you the power to make data-driven decisions with confidence.
Our reporting solutions are supported by Microsoft Power BI, the business analytics tool that transforms raw data into meaningful insights through interactive visualisations and reports, enabling data-driven decision-making across organisations. Find out more: Why Power BI.
New Year Discount on a Data Audit for 2025
To kickstart your fitness journey, we are offering a New Year Discount* on a Data Audit conducted by our team of data experts. We will help you assess the health of your data and provide insights on reporting gaps, as well as compliance and security issues. Based on our findings, we will offer tailored solutions designed to help you maximise the value of your data.
To find out more about our services, book a demo, or access your discounted data audit, please contact us at graeme.hills@drghills.co.uk or call +44 7500 895564.
*Get 10% off our standard costs - Discounted costs offered when an audit is booked in before 31st January 2025. Use the Code: NY25OFFER in the enquiry form, or contact our team for further information.