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In brief<\/strong><\/p>\n

This article highlights the situations in which the absence of product management becomes an obstacle. It shows how the Data Product Owner plays a central role in aligning vision, use and value, and transforming data into a strategic lever. <\/p>\n

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Budgets dedicated to data are increasing, teams are being strengthened and tools are multiplying. Yet the value created is not keeping pace.<\/p>\n

According to Gartner<\/a> <\/strong>only 44% of Data & Analytics<\/strong><\/a> teams really manage to create value for their organization, not because of a lack of resources, but because of a lack of management.<\/p>\n

In many organizations, the paradox is the same: data projects piling up, dashboards delivered on time but little used, and an overworked team struggling to demonstrate its impact. This is not inevitable. It’s often a sign that a key role is missing: the Data Product Owner<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Here are the five signs that you can’t go wrong.<\/p>\n

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1. Your data projects have no clear priority<\/h2>\n

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HR wants real-time monitoring of turnover indicators. Finance expects consolidated reporting. For the next COMEX, management is asking for a synthetic view. And IT is looking to overhaul the data warehouse before the technical debt becomes unmanageable. Everyone has their reasons. Each is convinced that his or her need is the most urgent. And the data team<\/strong>, caught in a vice, is trying to keep everything moving forward in parallel.<\/p>\n

In practice, this means making no real progress on anything. It’s not a question of capacity, but of arbitration. When everything is considered a priority, nothing really is.<\/p>\n

In the absence of an interlocutor capable of assessing the real value in business terms, rather than relying on the noisiest department, the data team becomes a reactive department, instead of a strategic instrument. This is precisely the role of the Data Product Owner<\/strong>: to evaluate each request in terms of its impact, feasibility and strategic alignment, then to develop and maintain a data roadmap<\/strong><\/a> that all stakeholders can understand and accept, even if their project is not at the top of the list.<\/p>\n

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The concrete signal:<\/strong> during your planning meetings, discussions end without any clear decision<\/a> being taken on priorities, or each team leaves with the conviction that its project is the most important.<\/p>\n