4. Build a global data office (central data office)
Most customer-obsessed and -clairvoyant companies have instituted a global data office and evolved them to get more useful insights from their data than the rest. Their global data offices are more than just arbiters of a common data policies and standards—they act as a center of excellence, setting guidelines and overseeing architecture, platforms, governance, and the enterprise-wide coordination of data and AI as well as providing specialists who have hard-to-hire skills.