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Data Excellence
How Data Leadership Can Drive Stronger Organizational Performance
Coach your organization for data-driven change and condition it to attain excellence in its data capabilities, mindset and performance with this guide for data leaders.
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EAN: 9781398614796
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How can data leaders build long-term value in the era of AI?
Data Excellence by Roberto Maranca is the strategic guide for Chief Data Officers, VPs, Directors and consultants responsible for delivering sustained, measurable data performance. Combining tactical insight with long-term vision, this book shows how to embed data leadership across the enterprise and drive real organizational value, beyond just tools or tech.
Framing the data leader as a performance coach, it offers a clear methodology for building scalable data capabilities that align with AI-driven transformation, governance and business goals.
You'll learn how to:
- Build a culture of data performance through behavior and mindset shifts
- Strengthen change execution and align initiatives across business units
- Deliver measurable value through data productization and cost-benefit analysis
- Evaluate risk and control functions across the data lifecycle
- Apply performance diagnostics including use-case readiness and initiative mapping
With practical tools and strategic depth, Data Excellence equips senior data leaders to future-proof their organizations and lead with impact in an increasingly AI-powered landscape.
Themes include: data leadership, organizational performance, AI-era transformation, data culture, value generation, data governance
About the authors
Roberto M Maranca is currently Data Officer for the Energy Management Business of Schneider Electric and prior to that, held C-suite leadership roles as the Group Data Officer for Lloyds Banking Group and Chief Data Officer at General Electric. He has been listed multiple times as one of Data IQ 100's most influential people in data and is a regular keynote speaker at leading data and business conferences. He is based in London, UK.
Table of contents
- Chapter - 01: Is It All About Data?;
- Chapter - 02: The Data Excellence Approach;
- Section - PART ONE: Pillar I- Strategies and tactics for cultural change
- Chapter - 03: The Data Culture;
- Chapter - 04: Introducing Data Roles;
- Chapter - 05: Data Charter, Data Disciplines and Data Fitness Assessment;
- Chapter - 06: The Coxswain’s Megaphone – Communications and Data;
- Chapter - 00: Data Workout 1;
- Section - PART TWO: Pillar II- How to change the way change is done;
- Chapter - 07: The Nature of Change;
- Chapter - 08: The Data Domain Model;
- Chapter - 09: The Data Excellence Operating Model;
- Chapter - 10: Establishing the Enabling Capabilities;
- Chapter - 11: Data Risks and Control Environment;
- Chapter - 00: Data Workout 2;
- Section - PART THREE: Pillar III-Generating (and sustaining) value
- Chapter - 12: The Productization of Data;
- Chapter - 13: Value from Data: Data Athlete's Best;
- Chapter - 00: Data Workout 3;
- Chapter - 14: Total Data for Total Performance
Reviews
Franco Francia, Vice President, DAMA Italy, and CEO of Inema Srl and FIT Strategy Srl
Every page of Data Excellence succeeds in a remarkable feat: translating years of experience, mistakes, successes and insights into a real practical training course in data excellence. The original metaphor of the Data Personal Trainer who trains corporate Data Athletes is not just a stylistic device, but the key to transforming complex concepts into a concrete and accessible path. With a direct, intelligent and never predictable style, Roberto Maranca starts from a simple yet overlooked observation: to obtain value from data, technology and frameworks are not enough; a real cultural change is needed, role by role, habit by habit. This book is deeply original because it does not copy ready-made models: it dismantles them, compares them and reconstructs them based on what is really needed in the company. Each chapter is a step towards an idea of excellence that brings together culture, change and value. I highly recommend this book to anyone responsible for organizational change, from Chief Data Officers, to digital transformation leaders, to all those who want to move beyond talking about being 'data-driven' and start truly embodying it, day after day.
Caroline Carruthers – Bestselling author and CEO, Carruthers and Jackson
It's wonderful to see the ideas I've heard from Roberto Maranca come to life in the pages of this book. Maranca's humanitarian and philosophical approach to data is assessible, actionable and inspiring for all of us that wants to make a real difference with data.
Stijn Christiansen - Co-founder & Chief Data Citizen, Collibra
Organizations that lead the market are those that master both the art and science of turning their assets into value: money, materials, talent and data. This has become increasingly clear with AI's insatiable hunger for data. The organizations of the future recognize that data is a team sport, and Data Excellence neatly outlines how to train those teams into top performance.
Dr Johanna Hutchinson, Group Chief Data Officer, BAE Systems
Set at the interface of leadership, culture change and technical data expertise, this book holds a unique position in the market to enable us to understand the conditions that are critical to drive value from data into our businesses. Roberto Maranca tackles the most challenging of topics, such as driving value and embedding operating models without losing the complexity of them and the muti-faceted principles that a leader must attend to for success. He shows us how and why embedding data at the heart of our organization is critical but immensely complex and outlines beautifully the vast responsibility that data leaders hold today. Sectioned into pillars and brought to life with models and workable examples ensures accessibility for mid-range and senior leaders from across all professions. Thought provoking for us all.
Peter Serenita, Former CDO, HSBC, Scotiabank
Roberto Maranca's book nails one of the most important factors in improving data for business and customer outcomes: you need to focus on the company mindset and then the way the company operates. This includes the culture, the roles and the way companies implement change. Maranca provides a very pragmatic and clear focus on the path for companies to go from being data reactive to becoming a truly data-driven organization. He not only gives the reader the building blocks necessary to implement a data management capability but also provides real-world examples and detailed steps required for success. He spends time in the book to lay out the communications plan needed to effectively execute and implement the needed data change into the organization. Data is a team sport and you need the whole organization to follow your lead. Any current or future Chief Data Officer or data professional can learn a lot from Data Excellence. It can be used as a blueprint to plan and execute their data change program and get their company on the path to becoming a data driven organization.
- Every page of Data Excellence succeeds in a remarkable feat: translating years of experience, mistakes, successes and insights into a real practical training course in data excellence. The original metaphor of the Data Personal Trainer who trains corporate Data Athletes is not just a stylistic device, but the key to transforming complex concepts into a concrete and accessible path. With a direct, intelligent and never predictable style, Roberto Maranca starts from a simple yet overlooked observation: to obtain value from data, technology and frameworks are not enough; a real cultural change is needed, role by role, habit by habit. This book is deeply original because it does not copy ready-made models: it dismantles them, compares them and reconstructs them based on what is really needed in the company. Each chapter is a step towards an idea of excellence that brings together culture, change and value. I highly recommend this book to anyone responsible for organizational change, from Chief Data Officers, to digital transformation leaders, to all those who want to move beyond talking about being 'data-driven' and start truly embodying it, day after day.
- Franco Francia, Vice President, DAMA Italy, and CEO of Inema Srl and FIT Strategy Srl
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