Grand Cru Data · New Release
What Every Executive Needs to Know to Turn Data into Their Organisation's Most Valuable Vintage
Grand Cru Data
What Every Executive Needs to Know to Turn Data into Their Organisation's Most Valuable Vintage
Grand Cru Data Ltd · grandcrudata.com
Before you invest in data strategy, any form of data governance, or an AI readiness project, you need the right mental model. This taster gives you a first sip! It's the Foreword and some of the opening pages from the first three chapters, in the time it takes to drink a coffee!
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What's Inside the Book
Part One · Free Samples
Understanding the Vineyard
Foreword: Why "Data is the New Oil" Was Always Wrong
Terroir — Why Your Data Looks the Way It Does
Why every organisation's data is unique and what that means for strategy
The Soil — The Eight Dimensions of Data Quality
How data quality becomes a boardroom issue — and how to fix it
Reading the Label — What Data Fluency Really Means
Why your executives are not illiterate — they are unfluent
Part Two
Planting with Purpose
The Vintage Plan — Building a Data Strategy That Lasts
How to write a data strategy your board will actually fund
Securing the Harvest — Making the Investment Case
The CFO conversation — and how to win it
The Winemaker — What Good Data Leadership Looks Like
The CDO role, the reporting line, and how to hire right
Part Three
The Harvest
Picking at the Right Moment — The Data Value Chain
How raw data becomes decision-ready insight
The Blend — Integration and Interoperability
Why disconnected systems are your biggest hidden cost
Is the Wine Ready? — AI Readiness and the CNTRL Framework
What it actually takes before AI delivers return on investment
Part Four
Grand Cru
The Sommelier's Assessment — How to Score Your Own Vineyard
The five-dimension maturity model — and where most organisations sit
The Cellar — Governance, Accountability, and the Data-Mature Board
How governance works when it actually works
Your 90-Day Action Plan — From Reading to Results
Sixty questions for your board and a clear path from here to Grand Cru
Appendices
Additional Reference Materials, Tools, Glossary & Resources
Proprietary Frameworks
CNTRL
Cleanse · Normalise · Transform · Represent · Label
The five conditions your data must satisfy before AI investment delivers real return. If you can't answer yes to all five, your AI programme is premature.
Vineyard
Assessment
Five-dimension maturity model
A structured diagnostic across Strategy, Quality, Integration, Governance, and Fluency. Produces a maturity score from Table Wine to Grand Cru.
8 Dimensions
Of Data Quality
Accuracy, Completeness, Consistency, Reliability, Timeliness, Uniqueness, Usefulness, and Differences — the complete picture of what makes data trusted.
Data Value
Chain
Raw → Prepared → Integrated → Insight → Decision-Ready
Five stages every piece of data passes through — and where most organisations leak value. Most stop at stage two.
Integration
Spectrum
Fragmented → Connected → Integrated → Interoperable
Four levels of integration maturity — from siloed chaos to a system where every application can talk to every other. Most large organisations sit at level two.
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Resources & Digital Products
Download the Vineyard Assessment scorecard, CNTRL reference card, and sample board questions as standalone PDFs.
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