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Spur innovation: As more people begin to understand the potential offered by a new data initiative, they may identify additional applications with unexpected benefits.

Increase commitment: Each exposure to the initiative via a short-term win is an opportunity to turn neutral bystanders into participants, supporters, and potential advocates.

Maintain executive buy-in: Tangible results show your leadership team that the data initiative is delivering value and warrants their continued investment and support.

Undermine potential resistance: The concrete improvements introduced by quick wins can make it more difficult for detractors and reluctant stakeholders to block or slow the rollout process.

Observations and feedback from each project can inform the strategy of the overall data initiative.

Refine the strategy: Each quick win is an opportunity to test ideas and refine them over time.

Reward change agents and early adopters: It’s an opportunity to celebrate the efforts of change agents and early adopters who embraced new data practices, processes, and tools.

It can also serve as an insightful microcosm that provides exposure to different facets and issues over a shorter time frame.

Build skills: Each project is a chance for the team to develop and refine their skills and knowledge.

Provide payoff evidence: Quick wins show the short-term costs and sacrifices are worthwhile and can translate into positive value for the business.

I’ve combined his observations with my own in the following list: Kotter’s book, Leading Change, he shares several critical benefits that can be generated by short-term wins. Quick wins are a great mechanism for showing progress, building skill sets, and keeping people interested and engaged. In these scenarios, it’s easy to lose focus and momentum along the way.

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In fact, most companies must wait several months or years before they can reap the full potential of their data investments. However, these smaller, targeted projects can be an integral part of the roll-out strategies for larger data initiatives, which can take a long time to fully deploy.

Some people may view quick wins as unnecessary distractions that shift focus away from the core data initiative. Quick wins are beneficial in many ways to the long-term success of the overall data initiative. When you have a project that meets all three of these criteria, you have something that can help you build crucial momentum for your overall data initiative. If people won’t associate the short-term project with the overall initiative, you will have missed an opportunity to reinforce why the initiative is both valuable and needed.

Clear association: To maximize the potential for momentum, each quick win should be viewed as being clearly connected to the larger data initiative.

You want to be confident it can generate a positive impact-in a rapid, timely manner.

It must also require a relatively low level of effort and be low risk to deliver. To avoid delays and accelerate its timeline, your project will need a focused, narrow scope.

If you can’t complete the project in a short timeframe, it isn’t a “quick” win. Short time to value: The essence of a quick win is the speed in which it can be deployed in relation to the overall data initiative.You can’t build momentum with ambiguous, low-visibility projects with uncertain payoffs. Whenever possible, you’ll want to prioritize prominent wins over less obvious ones to maximize your exposure across the organization. The more people who can easily see and recognize the tangible value that your project has delivered, the better. Visible benefit: While the project should deliver a clear benefit to the business, you also need it to be a visible win.All three criteria are essential to generating a successful quick win.