Support to Strategy Course
Chief Data/Analytics Officer Edition

Chief Data/Analytics Officer responsibilities now includes business strategy as part of their job description. Besides managing data strategy, Chief Data/Analytics Officers are being tasked to utilize data to drive business outcomes. Data monetization, cultural, and technical changes, and data visioning for all departments are now an everyday part of the CDAO’s duties. It will be even harder for Chief Data/Analytics Officers to find the time to leverage their core data management and analytics expertise to help transform and grow the business.

Force yourself out of your comfort zone.

Change the way you think about DATA moving forward.

Accelerate and elevate your career and brand.

This Support to Strategy Workshop focuses on the key aspects to shift any Chief Data/Analytics Officer leader or team from a traditional support stance to proactive strategy. Expect results like saving time, lowering costs, and increasing revenue across the entire organization.

Any Data leader and data technology employee that wants to learn how to transition from a support stance to a strategic position for their organization or personal brand. Leverage the Support to Strategy Workshop to increase your knowledge and value to your current or future employer. Utilize this workshop topic for weekly or monthly Technology meetings.

For Company Ownership – the Support to Strategy Workshop is an ideal way to begin the process of transitioning your Data Department from a Support mindset to a Strategy perspective. Simultaneously your data team will be learning how to transition their department from a cost center to a profit center.

For the Executive – Learn to leverage data from a corporate perspective. Examine the areas of your business where data-driven decision making will make an immediate impact and recognize the connection to long term revenue. Leverage data to absorb more work, increase revenue and grow your business with the same or less resources and employees.

For Departmental Leaders – Support to strategy, Cost center to a profit center, Collaborate and cooperate, and Proactive decision-making are just a few of the areas addressed in a personalized Data courses and resources for your departmental and management leaders.

For the General Employee Population – What does “Data is the New Technology” really mean and how can any employee participate and contribute to the data-driven movement of your organization. Understand what it means to be data-driven from an employee perspective.

This is a working session. Expect a very interactive, personalized experience. Participation will be encouraged so be prepared to take notes. This workshop is not a technical session, but instead centers on taking steps to move you and/or your department from a support to strategy stance. The information is very comprehensive, thought provoking, and will challenge participants from all departments and experience levels.

At the conclusion of our time together, we want you to feel confident “Turning Support to Strategy Insight into Action” and driving “INSTANT RESULTS and IMMEDIATE IMPACT” through data-driven strategy initiatives.

Five Opportunities Courses, Curriculum and Resources are based on years of first-hand research and customer data conversations. We must all begin to think outside our personal controlled data environment and start viewing our data as a true business resource.

Session 1: Establishing a Data Foundation
Current Data Landscape
Learning from the Past
Support to Strategy Primary Goal
Digital Transformation Dominant Motive

Exercise – Incorporating business strategy into your job responsibilities

Session 2: Support to Strategy Transformation
Data Transformation
Shifting from Support to Strategy
Expanding Data Responsibilities
Cost Center to Profit Center Transition

Exercise – Making the cost center to profit center transition a reality

Session 3: Increasing Business Acumen
Solution Oriented Problem Solving
Sales and Marketing Knowledge and Skills
Collaborate & Cooperate
Proactive Decision-Making
Listen, Learn, React

Exercise – Identifying revenue opportunities

Session 4: Data as the New Technology
Data is the New Technology
Data-Driven Decision-Making
Positioning your organization as a next generation business
Transition Zones of a Next Generation Business

Exercise – Establishing and driving a data-first mentality

Session 5: Bringing it all Together
Impacting Bottom-line Revenue
Instilling a Sense of Urgency
Job Collapsing
Next Generation Data Team

Exercise – Developing a Next Generation Data Team

Taking Action
Summary

Registration Fee Includes
Instructor-led workshop
Live/In-person instruction
Workshop Materials
Results-oriented exercises
Certificate of Completion

Rick Francart is the Founder & CEO of Five Opportunities, a next generation business partner. We recognizes no two businesses are alike, and the way we conducted business in the past is not going to work in the future. For decades, Rick has been assisting technology leaders of commercial and government organizations of all sizes navigate their digital transformation journey. Rick is an expert at connecting Business, Technology, and People while maintaining the fragile bond between them. Rick’s knowledge spans infrastructure through applications, and the newest of technology, data.

The way we do business is changing and so are the options to fund our continued education efforts. There are companies very interested in speaking with your organization to inform and educate you on the benefits of their solutions and technology. Request a sponsor to absorb your education cost, and in return agree to a meeting with their representatives. Simple as that.