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Decision Intelligence Playbooks.

The practical layer of the Data Tiles Academy. These short, outcome-led playbooks help executives move from understanding the concepts to applying them inside the business. Start with the decisions that matter, build trusted data products around them, and create the governance foundation AI can safely use.

Academy Guides explain the what. Decision Intelligence Playbooks explain the how.

Playbook 01 · Strategy10 min read

From Data Driven to Decision Driven

Most organizations have spent a decade becoming data driven and are still struggling to point to better decisions. This playbook helps leaders reframe their strategy around the decisions that move outcomes, and put data, governance and AI to work in service of them.

Primary outcome

A clear shift in language and operating focus — from data assets and dashboards to the decisions that drive business value.

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Playbook 02 · Delivery12 min read

How to Stand Up Your First Trusted Data Product

A practical guide to choosing, scoping and delivering a first trusted data product that creates visible business value — without a multi-year platform program in front of it.

Primary outcome

A first trusted data product, owned by the business, supporting a real decision and providing a repeatable template for the next one.

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Playbook 03 · Framework11 min read

The Trusted Data Product Framework

The Data Tiles framework for what makes a data product genuinely trusted — purpose, ownership, governance, trust signals, reusability and lifecycle — and how to apply it as a design and review tool inside your organization.

Primary outcome

A shared definition of trust that business, data and AI teams can use to design, review and approve data products consistently.

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Playbook 04 · Governance10 min read

Governance at the Point of Decision

Governance applied at the point a decision is made — by a person or an AI agent — is the only governance that actually changes outcomes. This playbook shows how to move from passive policy documents to active governance embedded in the flow of work.

Primary outcome

A governance posture that protects the business in the moments that matter, without slowing down the decisions it is meant to support.

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Playbook 05 · AI Readiness12 min read

How to Close the AI Readiness Gap in 90 Days

A 90-day plan for executives who need to move from AI ambition to credible, governed AI use cases. Focused on the few decisions that matter, the trusted data products that support them, and the governance that makes AI safe to deploy.

Primary outcome

A 90-day path from AI ambition to a small set of governed, decision-anchored AI use cases the business actually trusts.

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The Playbooks sit alongside the Academy Guides, Market Signals, White Papers, Industry Use Cases and Assessments. Use them together — the Guides for the concepts, the Playbooks for the application, the Signals for the market context, and the Assessments to find your starting point.