Implementing Organizational Data Literacy

Is your organization a data-literate organization? Does it leverage insights to make decisions? Does it tie any analytics projects and initiatives to strategic goals? Does it blend data with multiple human factors, such as a motivation to ask questions or an openness to new ideas and perspectives? Is it able to be agile and scale to all employees when a new decision needs to be made leveraging data? If you cannot answer yes to all these questions, you are not alone. However, you may strive to be able to answer yes to all these at some point in the future. When you can answer yes to all of these, your organization systematically and systemically utilizes data and analytics to make the best possible decisions across all levels.

Much of this book is devoted to individual data literacy, but for organizations to be data literate, the skills and behaviors of employees are just one dimension. In addition, they need to have the right tools and technology...