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
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.
When this helps
Useful when information is fragmented, ownership is unclear, or a software or AI initiative needs stronger data foundations.
What KnowNow delivers
- Data Management Canvas and stakeholder definition
- Data architecture, quality, governance, and metadata planning
- Data pipelines, integration, and platform implementation where scoped
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
Define with the Canvas
Assess stakeholders, data needs, and responsibilities to establish priorities.
- Facilitated Canvas and stakeholder definition
- Prioritised data needs and responsibilities
- Recommendations and delivery direction
Silver
Pilot a data improvement
Deliver a defined data improvement or working pilot based on the agreed priorities.
- Scoped architecture and management plan
- A defined pipeline, quality, or governance pilot
- Evaluation against agreed criteria
Gold
Implement and sustain
Integrate and scale agreed data improvements, with operational ownership and support.
- Scoped production data engineering
- Integration, validation, and handover
- Agreed operational support
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 · Project · Tailored proposal. The initial assessment is a defined engagement. Duration depends on stakeholder availability and the scope of information to review. Implementation and retained support are scoped separately; pricing is confirmed in a proposal.
Your responsibilities
Provide relevant stakeholders, explain existing systems and constraints, and review the resulting priorities and responsibilities.
Assumptions and exclusions
The Canvas assessment does not itself include software implementation, a complete organisation-wide data inventory, or certification of legal compliance. Any additional delivery is explicitly scoped.
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
The Earth Museum: a Canvas-led starting point.
KnowNow helped define users, information structures, and governance before the platform’s interactive globe implementation.
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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