Your bridge has collapsed

Hey, data leader, Want to launch into 2025 with a strategy and purpose that you can actually measure?

Nov 10th I’m hosting a half-day workshop to help you define and design your success measures. More details and registration available here.

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The infamous challenge for data professionals is interacting with the business stakeholders and leadership. Confusion about what they want, when they want it, how it should exist, and what importance it has is the primary complaint I hear in my inbox.

A key discipline that bridges this gap? Data modeling.

No, I’m not strictly talking about slow-changing dimensions or snapshot fact tables.

Rather, I’m thinking about data modeling at a higher level practice that maps raw data into business frameworks and languages.

It’s a practice where you, as a data leader work to represent the business concepts and workflow with data. You constrain, shape, expand, conform, and enrich data so that it business users and leadership see can their business in the data.

It’s not a discipline the business does. It’s the work of the data team to model data, but it does require connection and relationship with the business teams.

• If you are feeling a breakdown between your data team and the rest organization.

• If you are ignored by leadership for all the hard work you do.

• If confusion abounds anytime you present data.

Take a hard look at your data modeling practice.

Your bridge might have collapsed (if it ever existed)

And only a chasm is left.

I’m here,

Sawyer