What we do
From AI data strategy to product roadmaps, ethics to commercialisation. Tailored services built around your actual goals.
Our approach
Curious yet cautious
We explore the frontier but don't chase hype. Every recommendation is grounded in evidence and pragmatism.
Ambitious yet pragmatic
Bold goals need realistic plans. We help you set stretch targets with achievable paths and measurable milestones.
Always data-informed
We apply the same discipline to our own work that we help you build in yours. Decisions driven by evidence, not instinct alone.
Software product management has been growing for nearly 30 years, but the challenges posed by data (and now AI) require a more bespoke approach. We can empower your data people to become product managers, or help existing PMs grasp the value data brings to their software or AI products. Whether you need help hiring, training, or embedding an expert to deliver a new product - we can help.
Delivering AI or software products with a strong data core requires you to think beyond user experience and product design. You also need a data governance model that keeps data accurate and secure while opening it up for your business needs. We align your product strategy with the data foundations you need, using the Archernar Strategy System.
Once you have the people and strategy, you need to set to work. Using the Archernar Strategy System, we translate your strategic goals into a deliverable, measurable roadmap of outcomes.
Help your Exec team see the opportunities, not only for the business but for their own teams to make better use of data. Build the support required to make a success of your data programmes.
Help your people get more excited about their part in your data story, and understand the shared responsibilities that come with that. Help data teams work more closely with, inspire and be inspired by their business colleagues.
Link your business strategy to defined data-related outcomes that bring measurable benefits to customers, colleagues and the organisation. The Archernar Strategy System helps you build a clear and deliverable programme.
Help business users and decision-makers get access to the data, insights and support they need to make great decisions. Share the benefits as well as the responsibility in a way that makes sense for your business today and in the near future.
Before investing in a Data Catalog and the supporting processes and people, capture and understand your core datasets to identify and prioritise urgent actions.
Identify your top commercial opportunities to make better use of data whether market-facing, cost-saving or risk-related. Work with key colleagues to set a pragmatic path forward.
What are your competitors, partners or peers working on that could offer inspiration, opportunity or risk to your data approach? We help you read the landscape clearly.
Bring Product Thinking to your approach to data. Create internal or external data products developed and managed sustainably. Build and empower your data product team to deliver measurable value.
Government entities are often required to release open data by law. With limited resource, this can be challenging and the ROI poorly realised. We help identify the most valuable data to release and understand users better and help businesses understand the value open data can bring as both user and publisher.
Not all data can be open. Not all data can be sold. Some can be shared in a controlled way that benefits both publisher and user while maintaining privacy and security internally, across defined partners, or with academic/public sector organisations. Creating those mechanisms requires strong data and product management. Archernar can help.
The ability to read, work with, analyse and communicate with data is the key skill of the 21st century. Not everyone needs to be a data scientist. We help your people take practical steps to becoming data-enabled, and help your data people boost their business literacy so their great work isn't misunderstood.
Get the basics without the hype. What can AI do to transform your business? What are the risks? And more importantly what does your data strategy need to deliver to enable ethical, secure AI?
Embed ethics in all data decisions to move beyond box-ticking compliance toward a state where your business can hold itself up as an exemplar to customers, investors and regulators.
If a full-time Data Protection Officer isn't yet a necessity, access fractional DPO services to support key data decisions. Our consultants are CIPPe certified to help you navigate GDPR and similar privacy regulations while supporting your commercial data aims.
Tailored for your scale
Just because your organisation is smaller doesn't mean data isn't important or can't be impactful. Getting it right early can identify opportunities for more rapid and sustainable growth. All our services can be tailored to your needs.
What data is driving your business already, and is it being captured, managed and used in the best way? What data is out there that could help you take the next step?
Link your business strategy to defined data-related outcomes that bring measurable benefits to your customers, colleagues and the organisation.
What are the most sensible, low-cost steps you can take to prepare your organisation to leverage data for success? Who should be responsible for what, and how can you support them?
Identify and operationalise the key data that provides most value internally or externally. Put in place the right processes and commercialise data ethically to maximise utility and protect your IP.
No matter your strategic data challenges
We work across all sectors, all sizes and all stages of data maturity. Get in touch to start the conversation.
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