Data Management Canvas
Get your data into focus.
Understand your information and agree what to improve or build.
Explore the Canvas ↗Technology leadership & delivery
Clarity first.Then buildwhat matters.
We help you make the right technology decisions—and build the data, AI and connected software to put them into practice.
From information to action
How we can help
Find your starting point.
CTO as a Service
A clearer technology direction.
Experienced guidance for your roadmap, architecture and delivery.
Explore CTO support ↗Selected work
See what we deliver.
Data + software
The Earth Museum
Data planning and an interactive globe for exploring places and stories.
Read the case study ↗Strategic advice + product development
Launch International
Helping a business test an idea, develop a product and make confident decisions.
Read the customer story ↗Let’s move your idea forward
What’s your
technology challenge?
Tell us what you want to improve or build.
Talk to KnowNowThe KnowNow service catalogue
A clear starting point.
A practical way forward.
Technology leadership and data, AI, software, and connected systems delivery. Find an engagement that fits the challenge in front of you.
Data Management and Engineering
Data Management Canvas
Build a shared picture of your information, its users, and responsibilities—then plan and deliver the improvements that matter.
BronzeSilverGold
Strategic Advisory and Enablement
CTO as a Service
Get experienced technology leadership to shape your roadmap, challenge architecture, and guide delivery.
BronzeSilverGold
AI and Intelligent Systems
Intelligent Assistant Design and Build
Connect an assistant to approved knowledge and useful workflows, with evaluation and integration built into the scope.
BronzeSilverGold
Software Engineering and Integration
Software Project Design and Delivery
Move from a defined user need to a working application, API, or integration—and a clear route to production.
BronzeSilverGold
Edge, Connected Systems and Digital Twins
Connected Systems and Digital Twin Delivery
Connect physical environments to software. Process data where it is created when latency, resilience, or bandwidth matters.
BronzeSilverGold
Scope, duration and commercial terms are agreed in your proposal.
One standard of quality. Three levels of scope.
Choose how far
you need to go.
Package level describes the work delivered. The delivery model describes how we work with you.
Understand the challenge.
A focused assessment, definition, roadmap, or prototype that establishes your next step.
Make it work.
A defined pilot, implementation, or working solution, with an agreed scope and acceptance criteria.
Build for ongoing use.
Production delivery, integration, scaling, and support appropriate to the service.
Fixed engagement · Project · Retained support · Specialist resource · Tailored proposal
Not sure where to start?
Start with the problem.
Tell us what needs to change. We’ll help identify the right capability and agree a suitable engagement.
Discuss your challenge ↗BronzeSilverGold
Strategic Advisory and Enablement
CTO as a Service
Get experienced technology leadership to shape your roadmap, challenge architecture, and guide delivery.
When this helps
Useful when you need senior technical leadership, are evaluating investment, or want independent challenge and support for a delivery programme.
What KnowNow delivers
- CTO as a Service and technology roadmaps
- Enterprise and solution architecture reviews
- Requirements definition, executive briefings, and team enablement
Our signature framework
The Data Management Canvas.
A structure for the conversation—not a substitute for the delivery that follows.
01 / Stakeholders
Who needs the data, and for which decisions?
Who needs the data, and for which decisions?
02 / Sources & collection
Where does it originate, and how is it captured?
Where does it originate, and how is it captured?
03 / Storage
How is it retained, protected, and made available?
How is it retained, protected, and made available?
04 / Governance
Who owns it, controls access, and takes responsibility?
Who owns it, controls access, and takes responsibility?
05 / Sustainability
How does its value, ownership, and usefulness change over time?
How does its value, ownership, and usefulness change over time?
A readable view of the Canvas structure. Your engagement develops it around your organisation’s data.
Choose the scope, not the quality
A clear route from definition
to working delivery.
Package scopes for this service. Final deliverables and commercials are confirmed in your proposal.
Bronze
Review and define
Assess a defined decision and establish a technology direction.
- Defined technology or architecture review
- Options and recommendations
- Prioritised roadmap
Silver
Guide a delivery programme
Provide advisory leadership for a defined programme, with agreed milestones and deliverables.
- Programme roadmap and architecture decisions
- Milestone reviews and team enablement
- Delivery assurance within agreed scope
Gold
Retain CTO leadership
Provide retained leadership for production decisions, scaling, and ongoing delivery assurance.
- Agreed leadership remit and availability
- Production and scaling decision support
- Recurring delivery and architecture reviews
Each package includes an agreed customer problem, deliverables, acceptance criteria, and next steps. Typical duration and indicative commercial terms are confirmed after discovery. Client responsibilities, dependencies, and exclusions below apply to the selected scope.
Before we begin
Clear expectations.
Useful collaboration.
Engagement, duration, and commercial model
Delivery model: Fixed engagement · Retained support. Available as a focused engagement or retained fractional leadership. Duration, access to the team, decision authority, and review cadence are agreed in the proposal.
Your responsibilities
Share business priorities, existing plans, decision constraints, and access to the people accountable for technology and delivery.
Assumptions and exclusions
Advisory does not automatically include implementation, full-time executive availability, legal advice, or responsibility for decisions outside the agreed remit.
Support and specialist delivery
Retained support and specialist capability can be included within the relevant service. Responsibilities, availability, and support arrangements are agreed explicitly.
Evidence and related work
Launch International: a critical friend for product decisions.
In her 2018 interview, CEO Sally Thompson described idea validation, staged product testing and an evolving strategic partnership with KnowNow.
Read the related case study →
The starting challenge
KnowNow’s role
What we delivered
What changed
Start with the outcome you need
Tell us what you’re
trying to make possible.
We’ll help you identify a useful next step, whether that’s a focused assessment, technology leadership, or a delivery project.
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