Data literacy skills
Current decision-making in business suffers from insight gaps. Organizations invest in data and analytics, hoping that will provide them with insights that they can use to make decisions, but in reality, there are many challenges and obstacles that get in the way of that process. One of the biggest challenges is that these organizations tend to focus on technology and hard skills only. They are definitely important, but you will not automatically get insights and better decisions with hard skills alone. Using data to make better data-informed decisions requires not only hard skills but also soft skills as well as mindsets.
When trying to find insights in your data, you need to use some technical skills such as data extraction and data preparation, as well as data analytics and data visualization, but if you are not critically challenging your insights to avoid any bias or incorrect assumptions, or if you are not actively listening to your colleagues’...