Purpose behind the data - Woven data strategy

A data strategy is how your organisation turns its mission into measurable, actionable information. It gives you a clear plan to move from messy spreadsheets and ad hoc reports toward confident decision-making, insight-driven service design, and stronger stories of impact. This guide explains what a data strategy is, why it matters, and how Woven helps you design one that works for your people, your purpose, and your pace. 

What is a data strategy? 

A data strategy is a living plan that helps your organisation use information more intentionally. It connects your purpose to your systems, your reporting to your impact, and your data to the decisions that matter most. 

It’s not a technology roadmap or a compliance document, it’s a foundation for working smarter with the information you already hold. And like any good strategy, it’s built from the ground up: with your context, your constraints, and your community in mind. 

Why it matters 

In our experience, most mission driven orgs are already collecting plenty of rich data, but few feel confident that it’s telling the right story, helping the right people, or serving the right purpose. A well-designed data strategy: 

• Brings clarity to what matters and what’s noise 

• Reduces duplication and reporting fatigue 

• Makes internal data roles and responsibilities clearer 

• Helps unlock funding through stronger evidence 

• Sets the foundation for dashboards, impact measurement, or platform improvements 

• Paves the way to using AI and automation to support new ways of operating across digital systems. 

If your team feels stuck; over-reporting, under-analysing, or is unclear about how to improve, a data strategy is often the best place to start. 

What Woven delivers 

We provide a structured, human-centred process that turns ambiguity into action. Every engagement is tailored to your size, systems, and stage of maturity, but our framework stays consistent, so you know what to expect. 

Woven’s data strategy framework 

Our strategy work is anchored in four connected layers, moving from purpose to practical action: 

Strategic drivers 

We start by understanding what’s most important to your organisation. That could be demonstrating outcomes, preparing for funding growth, improving service design, or reducing reporting burden. 

You receive: A clear articulation of your data priorities, aligned to your organisational strategy. 

Maturity Assessment 

We assess your current data maturity across five domains: Strategy, People & Culture, Data & Tools, Governance, and Use & Insight. We reflect this in a data maturity profile that helps you understand where you’re starting from, and why it matters. 

You receive: A visual maturity profile and a practical baseline that informs pacing, scope, and future focus. 

Use cases and priority areas 

Next, we collaboratively design the “why” behind the data: the questions you need answered, the insights you want surfaced, and the reporting you want streamlined. This is where strategy becomes grounded in your real-world needs. 

You receive: A set of use cases linked to datasets, stakeholders, and business processes—with commentary on feasibility and value. 

Roadmap and recommendations 

We bring it all together into a clear roadmap. We show you which actions to prioritise now, which to prepare for later, and how to keep your strategy alive through governance, capability-building, and practical tools. 

You receive: An implementation-ready roadmap with short-, medium-, and long-term actions—plus recommended enablers (e.g. data ownership, training, platform choices). 

Ongoing discovery + delivery support 

If you’re ready to move from strategy into implementation, we can: 

• design and implement fit-for-purpose data platform or analytics tools (e.g. using Microsoft Fabric or Power BI) 

• support funding applications that rely on data capability uplift 

• assist with procurement, partner selection, or impact measurement planning 

• support your team with data literacy training

• collaborate and install data governance frameworks, policy and procedures

• provide advisory support to your leadership. 

Indicative process and timing only

What makes Woven different? 

We speak both languages; translating operational needs and technical functionality. 

We collaborate, not prescribe; your strategy reflects your reality, not a generic copy and paste framework. 

We build trust and capability; so you’re not reliant on us long-term. 

We deliver with integrity; avoiding jargon, tech overreach, and vendor pressure. 

How to get started? 

Our strategy engagements are offered as: 

1. Standalone projects (ideal for organisations in a planning, funding, or realignment phase) 

2. Foundations for implementation (as part of a platform or dashboard delivery) 

3. Advisory services for consortium’s, peak bodies, or shared services 

Pricing is fixed and transparent. We’ll guide you through the right structure and level of depth for your needs, no one-size-fits-all, and no pressure to “go” before you’re ready.

A data strategy isn’t about technology, it’s about clarity. It helps your organisation work smarter, not harder. It brings confidence to your reporting, purpose to your data, and direction to your decisions. We want to help you build a strategy that reflects your values, your pace, and your people.