Driving a Data Centric Culture

The Economist Intelligence Unit has a guide to leading the move to a data-centric culture in an organization. This is revealing because the idea of a data-driven organization has until recently been taken as a kind of inevitable evolution. In reality, putting data at the heart of what you do requires leadership.

We're beginning to see organizations tripping up when they claim to be data-centric but in fact just have lots of data. It's not the same thing.  Equally, being able to analyze your data doesn't mean much unless the organization can and does act on the analysis.

I'd suggest also that the theoretical ability to collaborate with partners and customers, or a public stance of openness toward collaboration, is useless without the drive and creativity to create those relationships.

Standards enable the information era. But people make it work.   Economist