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Data Maturity Assessment and Guide

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Purple Panda Consulting - Data Maturity Framework

A practical model for understanding and improving how organisations manage, govern and use their data.

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Capability domains assessed

The maturity assessment evaluates how organisations manage data across several key capability areas that together form the foundation of effective data governance.

Enterprise Data Strategy

How organisational strategy, leadership priorities and data initiatives are aligned.

Data Governance

Ownership, accountability and policies guiding how data is managed.

Data Quality

Processes ensuring organisational data is accurate, reliable and trustworthy.

Metadata & Cataloguing

Understanding what data exists, where it lives and how it is structured.

Data Architecture

The systems and pipelines that move, store and integrate organisational data.

Privacy & Compliance

Ensuring data usage meets regulatory, ethical and organisational requirements.

Data Culture

How teams across the organisation understand, trust and use data.

Maturity levels

Ad hoc → Initial → Developing → Established → Advanced → Optimised

Ad hoc
Initial
Developing
Established
Advanced
Optimised

Level 0

Ad hoc

Practices are informal or inconsistent.

Level 1

Initial

Early initiatives exist but remain fragmented.

Level 2

Developing

Processes begin to formalise.

Level 3

Established

Governance and accountability are embedded.

Level 4

Advanced

Data practices support operational decision making.

Level 5

Optimised

Data is treated as a strategic asset.

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