Creating a Data-Driven Organization: Practical Advice from the Trenches

“Everyone in the organization should have access to as much data as legally possible.”

A balance of technical skills, business knowledge, and people skills Outstanding relationship building and communication skills Politically savvy

I believe that data-driven organizations have to respect their users’ rights and sensibilities.

Analysis “Transforming data assets into competitive insights that will drive business decisions and actions using people, processes and technologies”2

argue that organizations should, as a guiding principle, practice empathy.

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such insights require collecting the right data, that the data is trustworthy, the analysis is good, that the insights are considered in the decision, and that they drive concrete actions

A key component of the role is identifying and exploiting new business opportunities. That is both an opportunity to generate new sources of revenue and take the business in new directions.

I hinted earlier that risk mitigation can often restrict activity more than is legally required. Why is that?