How to avoid common issues causing data initiatives to fail

Unfortunately, most data initiatives don’t create any value for the business or are a net loss for the company. In order for the business to benefit, you need to avoid the following issues affecting your data:

Management issues

Workflow issues

  • Budget restrictions
  • Not prioritizing quality
  • Tasking wrong people
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  • Set it and forget it mentality
  • Poor planning
  • Trying to fix downstream
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Technical issues

Data issues

  • Outdated architectures
  • Technological limitations
  • Lack of maintenance
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  • Missing data points
  • Breaking data
  • Contradictory data
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Compliance issues

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  • Data without consent
  • Data removal upon request
  • International laws
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Avoid management issues

Management issues can hinder investment in crucial resources, compromise data integrity, and lead to inefficient processes. They foster a culture of indifference and inhibit proactive problem-solving, resulting in missed opportunities and mounting complications. Without adequate attention and strategic management, these issues can cascade, impacting decision-making, operational efficiency, and ultimately, the organization’s ability to leverage data effectively for success.

The above issues significantly hinder your company’s ability to turn data into business value. Cape.ly can provide you with a solid data foundation and handling issues for you.

Avoid workflow issues

Workflow issues can contribute to data issues by fostering an environment where errors go unchecked, problems escalate, and overall efficiency suffers, leading to compromised data integrity and reliability.

The above issues significantly hinder your company’s ability to turn data into business value. Cape.ly can provide you with a solid data foundation and handling issues for you.

Avoid technical issues

Technical issues result in an environment where errors propagate, system instability ensues, and data reliability wanes, ultimately undermining the integrity and accuracy of stored information, so you need to avoid:

The above issues significantly hinder your company’s ability to turn data into business value. Cape.ly can provide you with a solid data foundation and handling issues for you.

Avoid data issues

Companies create more data than ever before. But the priority seems to be on quantity, not quality. However, without a proper data foundation, your data initiatives are set up for failure. Here are data issues you need to avoid like the plague:

The above issues significantly hinder your company’s ability to turn data into business value. Cape.ly can provide you with a solid data foundation and handling issues for you.

Avoid compliance issues

Legal compliance requirements are constantly increasing, more red tape is added every day. Fines for improper use of data and people’s personal information have become higher and more frequent. What seem to have started in Europe, is becoming increasingly important around the world, so you must make sure your business is not breaking any laws while still maintaining the ability to make data-driven decisions.

The above issues significantly hinder your company’s ability to turn data into business value. Cape.ly can provide you with a solid data foundation and handling issues for you.

Avoid issues: Data as a Service

With Cape.ly you never have to worry about accuracy of your analytics tools because you’ll be using our high quality data. That’s right, analytics tools don’t need to collect their own data, they can be fed third-party data with no change in functionality. So no matter your role or use case, we’ll provide you with a hands-off, low-risk, solid foundation without issues or compromises.

If you want data with guaranteed quality, you can connect your digital analytics tools to our Data as a Service. You can focus on your actual work while we take care of everything else:

  • We collect the data, and maintain it.
  • We stream it into the tools you use for your use cases.
  • We continuously ensure and guarantee its quality.
  • We constantly make technical improvements.