Value Difference
Management Involvement
Expertise Priority
Key Best Practice
Data is seen as a reporting requirement (a necessary evil). Value is judged by how many dashboards are created, often leading to Dashboard Distrust.
Management delegates data ownership to the IT team. They demand metrics but refuse to participate in Data Governance or standardization.
Prioritizes visualization and tooling (the look and feel). Focus is on hiring analysts who are good at Power BI design, ignoring the data source integrity.
Operates with a "Collect Everything, Filter Later" mentality, risking compliance and resulting in Data Islands.
Data is seen as a strategic asset (the new oil). Value is judged by the guaranteed revenue derived from every insight.
Management participates in data strategy. They champion a single source of truth and enforce compliance policies top-down.
Prioritizes architecture and integrity. Focus is on hiring experts in Server-Side Tagging (SST) and pipeline resilience who ensure the data is correct before visualization.
Adopts a "Govern First" policy. Data is cleaned, standardized, and made compliant at the source (in the SST container), building resilient architecture.