As part of its strategy, Keva, the Finnish public sector pension provider, decided to strengthen its data foundation to better leverage analytics, automation and AI. Arked helped Keva to create clear Data and AI leadership structure, define data and AI goals as part of enterprise strategy and design a data governance model with clearer ownership, roles and ways of working.
Building a stronger AI-ready data foundation: The challenge
Keva has a long history of leveraging data in its business and had strong expertise and technological foundations in place. They had also started their AI journey with Copilot, AI pilots and AI governance.
However, Keva’s data and AI operations were managed largely as a support function, with no data and AI leadership role and also development and governance responsibilities spread across different parts of the organization.
Without clear Data and AI leadership, long-term strategic goals and road maps did not exist and shared data and AI capability development was lagging behind. Also there was no shared Data Governance framework and business-driven data ownership was lacking. This meant data was not always easy to use across business and it was missing key metadata important both for business and AI utilization.
As part of its strategy, Keva decided to remodel their AI and data leadership and strengthen its data foundation to better leverage AI, analytics and automation.
Arked solution
Arked provided senior-level expertise from the start to build a strategic AI-ready data foundation. Arked responsibilities included:
- Current and target state analysis
- Define enterprise wide data and AI strategic goals and key initiatives
- Designed data and AI leadership framework and key roles
- Modern data governance design
- Implementing data product development methods
- Supporting the implementation
Results and next steps
- Enterprise-wide data strategy was approved by the leadership team
- Data and AI leadership model approved and resourced
- Data governance pilot was completed to test framework and improve data quality
- Ongoing data governance framework implementation
Client Feedback: 10 / 10
“We are more than happy with the expertise and results Arked provided.”
