Introducing DataDivers strategic planning product called 'Horizons'

Embark on a strategic voyage with DataDiver's Horizons!

Horizons is your compass for navigating the complex waters of data and AI transformation, helping you to align your data and AI investments with your business goals, minimising risks, and maximising value! 

Whether you are laying the groundwork or advancing your AI journey and looking to scale, Horizons provides the clarity, strategy, and direction you need to drive real business impact.

With six powerful steps, Horizons builds a simple yet highly visual data and AI strategy, empowering your team to execute with confidence, focus on the right areas, make smarter decisions, and transform your business with data-driven success.  

But our approach doesn’t just give you a roadmap, we build value into the engagement by identifying critical high value use cases and delivering a use case during the engagement, demonstrating the art of the possible.

Services provided by Horizons

With our extensive data and AI capability, and a wealth of experience in data and AI strategy and governance, we are your ideal partner to help you transform and  innovate.

Our approach and experties

Horizons unique, immersive collaborative approach coupled with deep subject matter expertise enables the development of your data and AI strategy and actionable roadmap, powered by our very own framework and tools, including Jibility.

Our approach ensures executive stakeholder consensus, achieved through a highly visual collection of artefacts which are built up through stakeholder interviews, lean thinking workshops and regular executive engagement.

Six-step roadmap for data and AI strategy execution

Horizons has six core steps that build on each other to create your roadmap for your data and AI strategy execution.

Together, the six steps articulate a simple and highly visual roadmap for moving forward, which can be easily understood by your team, enabling them to execute with clarity and confidence.

Not just a strategy and a plan!

During theHorizons engagement, we rapidly design and build components of your future-state data platform using proven architecture reference libraries.
We collaborate with key stakeholders to identify high-value use cases that deliver early impact.
To demonstrate value, we develop a practical use case to surface the potential capability of your data platform and analytics capability.
And we leave you with an operational blueprint to ensure sustainable, ongoing capability.

Plot the Course, Navigate to Value, Anchor Capability!

What makes Horizons different?

Challenges, objectives and capabilities

We document your vision, challenges and objectives, and help you to secure consensus on the strategic intent. By applying a capability-based planning approach, we will uplift your core data capabilities to support your vision. 

Actions, initiatives and roadmap

We’ll outline your initiatives and their required investment, priority, and sequencing. Through a substantiated roadmap, we’ll help you gain consensus on the velocity of implementation and the impact on budgets.

Business use cases

Early realisation of value is key. We’ll identify the critical business use cases for delivering high value outcomes during the course of the Horizons engagement. These will shape the incremental delivery of your data strategy.  

Future state platform architecture and governance model

Leveraging our data architecture reference libraries, we’ll define the data platforms, architecture and governance model that will underpin the roadmap execution.  

Operational blueprint

Our Data Divers will create an operational blueprint for your analytics functions including structure, roles and key processes, including prioritisation frameworks.

Showcase analytics insights and report

We’ll build a thin vertical slice of your data platform (subject to data and platform availability) to demonstrate the potential of a robust data platform and analytics capability.  

Executive summary

We will leave you with a summary of all deliverables to ensure key stakeholders are able to fully endorse the strategy.