SME Data Audit Checklist

SME Data Audit 

Whether you’re starting out or scaling up, managing and growing your data effectively is essential to; communicate with your target audience, deliver excellent customer service, and stay compliant with legislation such as GDPR.
As your business grows, your data should drive efficiencies, competitive advantages, and readiness for innovations like AI. 

Our data audit service for a Small or Medium-sized Enterprise (SME) aims to identify, assess, and document all data sources (structured and unstructured) within the organisation. This helps understand what data exists, where it comes from, its quality, risks, and compliance requirements.

A data audit helps SMEs: 

✔ Gain better control over their data
✔ Reduce security risks & compliance failures
✔ Improve data quality for better decision-making
✔ Ensure GDPR/DPA compliance 


What can you do to prepare your data?

1 – Audit your data sources
What data do you have? Where is it stored? How is it collected and managed?
Understand its quality, compliance and your data culture
Is it fit for the purposes you intend to use it for?

2 – Act on findings to improve
Establish a culture of data responsibility
Put in place data governance and management of your data assets

3 – AI, BI and other data use-cases
Identify and focus on specific problems that you want to solve
Understand type, volume and quality of data required and how you will obtain it
Are the processes in place to consistently deliver this data at point of use?

Download your DATA AUDIT documents here.

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Need help? 

We will provide an expert data consultant to work remotely with you to conduct the audit, draft an audit report and playback findings and recommendations to key stakeholders within your business. The cost of our SME Data Audit Service is £1,500 (ex VAT)