Season 2 Episode 4 - Joe Hardstaff – The Business benefits of data efficacy

Joe is an innovative decisive, and accomplished IT Executive who delivers and embeds digital, data and technology transformation, technology architecture and project / programme management having led £100M transformation and acquisition programmes generating more than £200M revenue improvements.

Business orientated strategic thinker skilled at driving technology and cyber security teams to achieve operational excellence in the face of persistent and targeted state sponsored attack against military and government data assets.

In this episode, we talked about data.  Joe gave us his definition of data efficacy and why it is important for a business, together with how to differentiate between data efficacy and data quality.

Joe also gave us an overview of the best way ensure the accuracy and consistency of data across different systems and departments and the best way to align data architecture with business goals? We also covered ways to implement data governance frameworks to ensure data efficacy?

In addition, Joe gave us a real life scenarios where improved data efficacy directly contributed to achieving business KPIs or goals. There were a couple of surprising examples.