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Across UK mid-market organisations, pricing schedules, commission calculations and rolling forecasts still live in workbooks whose last editor left years ago. Treating these files as heritage assets rather than shadow IT changes the response: catalogue them, rank them by succession risk, and attach a handover note before anyone proposes a replacement.
When finance, operations and marketing each defend a different version of the same metric, the problem is rarely the pipeline. This article sets out a lightweight custody model for UK mid-market data leaders: named owners, a short escalation path, certified definitions and a quarterly cull of zombie KPIs.
A missing figure or broken pipeline is usually treated as a technical repair job. This practical 48-hour review framework helps UK data teams capture decision impact, reporting exposure and organisational learning before the incident fades from memory.
Many UK data catalogues are maintained as governance artefacts rather than discovery tools. This article sets out a two-minute test for search relevance, ownership signals and plain-English metadata, and explains what to fix first.
Most UK lineage purchases begin with an audit question and end as a static diagram nobody opens. This piece sets out the three operational jobs lineage should actually perform and five tests to apply before any licence is signed.
Renewal season is a governance opportunity, not an administrative chore. This ten-point charter gives UK data leaders a written basis for negotiating ownership, exit, lineage and cost control before the next analytics contract is signed.
Most UK mid-market organisations have accumulated dashboards, pipelines and spreadsheets faster than they can govern them, and the cost only surfaces during audits or senior departures. This five-day triage gives lean data teams a defensible way to inventory what they hold, assign ownership, score regulatory and commercial risk, and take a credible one-pager to the board.