About Archernar

Breaking the
hype cycle

We help organisations navigate the data river. Curious yet cautious, ambitious yet pragmatic, and always data-informed.

A pattern recognised

Archernar End of the river

The brightest star in the constellation Eridanus; the longest north - south constellation in the sky, lending its name to rivers in several ancient cities.

"Data, like water, should be life-giving to organisations - if kept clean, safely stored and well managed, it can be."

Our Founder spent years working with major corporations, start-ups, scale-ups and governments to deliver data products and programmes. Along the way, a pattern emerged: the organisations struggling most weren't short on ambition. They were short on alignment.

There was always a disconnect between business strategy and its execution across the data, technology, and product domains. Just as often, the customer-led innovations of product and data science teams were never properly incorporated back into business strategy. Technology delivery, meanwhile, frequently served neither - leaving innovation teams with the wrong tools and little strategic support.

Archernar was founded to change this.

We help set and inform strategies, plans and backlogs bi-directionally - creating a clear line of sight between organisational goals and the work that delivers them, so every stakeholder can see the value being created and understand their role in it.

The name Archernar means 'end of the river' - the destination of a long journey. Data, like the river, should flow. It should sustain. And navigated well, it can power valuable economic and social change for all.

We want to break the data<>technology hype cycle

01 Alignment Too many transformation initiatives fail due to poor alignment of business, data, technology and AI/product strategies.
02 Impact We recognise the power of programmes that create real change for businesses, colleagues, customers and citizens.
03 Experience We understand how and where they can go wrong, especially when data is a critical element.
04 Measurement Our team works with your leadership community to align data-driven initiatives with business goals and identify measurable key results.

Innovation <> Implementation <> Inspiration

The Archernar Strategy System

We developed a proprietary approach to mapping your aims to real activity and providing clear measures of progress to all stakeholders with a flexible model that can support Data, Product, Technology, AI and People programmes.

STEP 01

Strategic Vision

Organisation-level strategy mapped to key deliverables and measured via defined Outcomes. Clear line of sight from top to bottom, and bottom to top.

STEP 02

Prioritised Themes

Data, Tech, AI and Product themes are prioritised against your strategic pillars, with OKRs and KPIs defined at every level.

STEP 03

Domain Delivery

Themes translate into concrete domains - each with a roadmap of Now, Next, Later outcomes that deliver measurable value at every stage.

STEP 04

Ongoing Monitoring

Post-implementation KPI tracking ensures momentum is maintained and stakeholders at every level can see progress clearly.

Organisations we've worked with

Before founding Archernar, our Founder worked with some of the world's most innovative organisations, always focused on the positive opportunities that good data products, backed by sound business strategy, can bring.

Experian
Tesco
Times Higher Education
Virgin
Dept. of Government Enablement, UAE
ADQ, UAE

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