About this session

Not-for-profit and third sector organisations strive to generate income and work towards achieving their mission. Such operating activity produces data that organisations attempt to use to manage performance and evidence impact. However, many organisations process far more data than they can effectively exploit. Ad-hoc investment in business system modernisation over the last decade has invariably created silos of data that are either largely unintegrated or stitched together through a patchwork of data flows. Data teams (if they exist) often struggle to sustain the operational flow of data and meet end user insight needs. The real value of Artificial Intelligence is yet to be fully understood but the one thing we do know is that without the right data you won’t get the right outputs. What can be done?

A data strategy sets out a long term roadmap that sets out the steps you need to undertake to optimise your data landscape and staff use of data over time. It represents the recognition that data is an intangible asset that – like any other high value asset – demands governance. It takes seriously the notion that democratisation of data (as far as appropriate) improves organisational performance. It inverts the desire to “become data driven” to instead answer the question “where is the value in our data”? It helps you make decisions on technology investments that make sense in the context of your whole architecture as well as from a business value perspective.

If you are a leader, sponsor, change maker or data catalyst in any not-for-profit or third sector organisation, this event is for you.

What will attendees gain from attending this session?

By the end of the session, leaders will:

• Have greater clarity on what “good” looks like for data at leadership level
• Understand why many data initiatives fail to influence decisions even with modern systems in place
• Be better equipped to ask the right questions of SLT, teams, suppliers and advisors
• Gain confidence in where to focus attention and investment and where not to
• Leave with clearer thinking they can take back into board, budget and strategy discussions

Who should attend this event?

This event is designed for senior leaders, including:

• CEOs and Managing Directors
• COOs and Executive Directors
• Finance Directors and CFOs
• Trustees with strategic or audit responsibility
• Heads of Digital, Data or Transformation working closely with SLT

It is particularly relevant if your organisation is:

• Entering a new strategic or planning cycle
• Considering major investment (CRM, data platforms, AI, digital transformation)
• Struggling to turn data into timely, trusted insight
• Experiencing growing board-level scrutiny around performance or impact

The programme

2.00pm - How important is data to your organisation's future success?

Considering the real value in your data and strategies to help build organisational intelligence.

2.20pm - Round Table: Discussion, thoughts and questions

2.40pm - Do you have the right data operating model to achieve your strategy? Who to involve and why

A practical, people-led view of data governance: collaborative ways of working that make data trustworthy - and usable - for strategy delivery.

3.00pm - Round table: Discussion, thoughts and questions

BREAK - Tea/Coffee

3.30pm - Data strategy starts with the question you ask

Designing clarity, capability, and confidence in decision-making.

3.45pm - Round Table: Discussion, thoughts and questions

4.00pm - What don't you know, what could you know and what should you know?

Are you basing decisions on the information you have, rather than the information you need?

4.15pm - Round table: Discussion, thoughts and questions

4.30pm - Event End

Cost and booking

This event is different from our previous sessions - it’s a paid, senior-level leadership event designed specifically for CEOs, COOs, Directors and Trustees who are responsible for making confident, defensible decisions in increasingly complex organisations.

Cost: £99-£149

Royal College of Nursing, 20 Cavendish Square, London, W1G 0RN