Data Tiles Framework

Decision-Driven Enterprise Framework^™

Most organizations measure activity. The decision-driven enterprise measures the decisions that actually move the business and makes sure data, governance and AI are organized to improve them.

Supports the Decision-Driven Enterprise

Entire operating model

This framework operationalizes the highlighted layer of the Data Tiles Decision-Driven Enterprise operating model.

6 min read·For CEO, CIO, CDO, COO, Business Executive·Related: Latttice, Lenz

The business problem

Data programs grow. Decisions do not get better.
Dashboards multiply while the few decisions that drive value remain unsupported, undocumented and ungoverned.
AI is added on top of a system that was never designed around decisions, so adoption stalls and risk grows.

What good looks like

The decisions that drive the business are named, owned and instrumented.
Every priority decision is supported by a trusted data product.
Governance is active at the point of decision, not a downstream review.
AI augments specific decisions with explainability and accountability built in.
Investment is measured by decision quality, not dashboard count.

The framework stages

Stage 1
Define the Decisions That Matter
Identify the small set of recurring decisions that drive value, risk and customer outcomes. Make them visible, named and owned.
Read the guide: How to Identify the Decisions That Matter
Stage 2
Build Trusted Data Products
Build business-owned, reusable data products that serve those decisions with quality, lineage and meaning attached.
Read the guide: How to Build Trusted Data Products Read the guide: How to Build Business-Led Data Products
Stage 3
Activate Governance
Move governance from documentation to action. Governance becomes a runtime layer that signals trust, risk and policy at the moment of decision.
Read the guide: How to Move from Traditional to Active Governance Read the guide: How to Govern AI at the Point of Decision
Stage 4
Enable Decision Intelligence
Move from dashboards to recommendations, from charts to chat, and from after-the-fact analysis to in-the-moment intelligence.
Read the guide: How to Move from Dashboards to Decision Intelligence
Stage 5
Prepare for AI at the Point of Decision
Make enterprise data, governance and decisions AI-ready so agents can be deployed safely against the decisions that matter.
Read the guide: How to Prepare Enterprise Data for AI Agents Read the guide: How to Build Active Governance for AI

Where organizations get stuck

· Programs anchor on tooling and platforms instead of decisions.
· Data ownership is unclear or sits inside IT.
· Governance is treated as a council, not a capability.
· AI pilots are run in isolation from the business decisions they should improve.

How Data Tiles helps

We help executives name the decisions that matter and design the operating model around them.
Latttice industrializes trusted data products and active governance.
Lenz brings governance and intelligence to the point of decision for AI.

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Executive Guides in this framework

Data Tiles Guide