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Data Literacy in Practice

You're reading from   Data Literacy in Practice A complete guide to data literacy and making smarter decisions with data through intelligent actions

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803246758
Length 396 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Kevin Hanegan Kevin Hanegan
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Angelika Klidas Angelika Klidas
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Table of Contents (21) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1: Understanding the Data Literacy Concepts
2. Chapter 1: The Beginning – The Flow of Data FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Unfolding Your Data Journey 4. Chapter 3: Understanding the Four-Pillar Model 5. Chapter 4: Implementing Organizational Data Literacy 6. Chapter 5: Managing Your Data Environment 7. Part 2: Understanding How to Measure the Why, What, and How
8. Chapter 6: Aligning with Organizational Goals 9. Chapter 7: Designing Dashboards and Reports 10. Chapter 8: Questioning the Data 11. Chapter 9: Handling Data Responsibly 12. Part 3: Understanding the Change and How to Assess Activities
13. Chapter 10: Turning Insights into Decisions 14. Chapter 11: Defining a Data Literacy Competency Framework 15. Chapter 12: Assessing Your Data Literacy Maturity 16. Chapter 13: Managing Data and Analytics Projects 17. Chapter 14: Appendix A – Templates 18. Chapter 15: Appendix B – References 19. Index 20. Other Books You May Enjoy

Identifying KPIs

Identifying the right KPIs is critically important for data-informed organizations because they help keep objectives and organizational goals as key drivers of decision making. Having the wrong KPIs can waste a lot of time and effort working toward the wrong outcomes as well as have serious unintended consequences. Unintended consequences are discussed in more detail in the next section of this chapter. This section will help us first identify key characteristics of KPIs, and then how to identify the two types of KPIs: leading and lagging.

Characteristics of KPIs

Organizations always have some level of KPIs they are driving toward, but there are many times that those KPIs have a flaw in them. These flaws can lead to organizations that are striving to achieve their KPIs, but even if they do, they do not improve on the desired goals and outcomes. The following 10 characteristics will help you identify and define proper KPIs:

  • Ties to strategic objectives...
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