We have a pipeline of further Playbooks in development and will make announcements of their launch in the future.

The implementation of our RAYSE Playbook within your business will help to:

• Transform strategy into live conversations by creating a continuous feedback loop, thus ensuring that management all have the same understanding and context of the strategy and how it translates into operational practice.
• Produce a platform from which to drive business agility at different levels within the organisation.
• Create alignment within the management team as to what outcomes are required and how they are prioritised and measured. Management can then associate and communicate respective initiatives and influences / risks – which the board can use to better align further strategy workshops.

RAYSE helps businesses break the pattern of complex spreadsheet implementation plans, poor visualisations and biased internal workflows that reinforce outdated business development structures. With an easy to navigate data driven view of your business strategy, RAYSE allows you to make quality daily business decisions based on verified facts, not opinions. RAYSE also provides a platform through which scenarios and assumptions can be tested over time, with relevant data views.

Even a relatively simple business can quickly become enmeshed in operational complexity due to the shifting nature of their operating environment; the primary goal of this Playbook is to provide management with an anchor point to tether themselves to amidst that complexity, as well as a compass to give them a clear forward direction in spite of it.

The power of this Playbook stems from the fact that all objectives and outcomes within an organisation are related in some way – they all, in theory, help us reach the vision or organisation’s purpose. When you can show how these outcomes are related, it can be incredibly empowering for the team who have their heads down trying to achieve it. It creates focus and cohesion – a unique alignment and a golden succession thread from one generation of leadership to another.

It allows managers and employees the ability to continually question whether the outcome they work towards will now, and in the future, deliver on that purpose and vision. Discrepancies lead to communication and action, and ultimately agility, and with the right team, innovation!

RAYDA is an empowerment offering that gets the business to refocus its justification for data assets or report building and data consumption. Ours is a disruptive, digitally based, people-centric alternative to managing the business’ need for information.

Previously, governing boards, committees and senior management could delegate responsibility for data management and governance, ignoring the tight relationship between data and the decisions they were making. This is no longer the case in most industries given the pace of change and the high degree of digitization in new business models. Realizing optimal benefits for stakeholders while reducing risk and innovating successfully at different levels within the organisation is what makes fourth-generation industry players competitive.

That is to say, digitized enterprises are increasingly dependent on tight, data-driven decision cycles — and therefore on transparency and quality of the supporting data — for survival and growth.

Transformation is evolutionary in nature but evolutionary change is not necessarily synonymous with slow.

That’s why we’ve adopted an agile approach with our RAYDA Playbook applying the key principles of good data governance and data management yet empowering the business owners to participate in the process while remaining focused on:

• business outcomes
• prioritisation of data and reporting projects, and
• supporting good communication, collaboration and sharing of data practices across projects and systems.

The program assists the business over time to change its relationship with data and create more proactive, solutions-oriented approach to solving business intelligence and data problems.

Data governance is about the degree to which we use disciplined behaviour across our entire organisation in how we manage that data, by having in place appropriate policies, frameworks and controls to ensure that data is governed in a way that meets the needs of the organisation’s stakeholders.

Enterprises with poorly designed or adopted approaches to enterprise governance perform worse in aligning business and IT strategies and processes. As a result, such enterprises are much less likely to achieve their intended business strategies and realize the business value they expect from digital transformation.

Data management is about the operational implementation of practices to continually maintain and improve data to have it fit-for-purpose in making good business decisions.

It also extends to the data value chains required and how the team needs to analyse the business to ensure they are looking with the “same eyes” at how the information is segmented or dimensionalised. Where there are discrepancies, they are challenged and either changed or kept, with a better understanding of the business.