Executive Sponsorship

25
Aug
An empty oval wooden conference table surrounded by chairs in a neutral-toned boardroom, representing the room where data foundation investments are defended — or quietly abandoned.

Data foundation projects don't lose sponsorship because they fail

Executive sponsorship for data foundation projects rarely collapses because something went wrong. It collapses because the business case was framed around outcomes the foundation cannot deliver before it is complete — and nobody corrected that expectation before the first quarterly review.
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