How to build a data driven culture to accelerate digital transformation

Developing a data culture and digital transformation are complementary processes, with the former accelerating the latter. By instilling shared values, attitudes and a competency towards data literacy across the organization, you can aid adoption and accelerate the implementation of technologies necessary for a successful digital transformation. Building a data culture before undergoing digital transformation ensures buy-in from employees from the very beginning of the process. We support you to accelerate your approach.

How do you develop a data culture powerful enough to deliver added value?

Building a data culture to accelerate digital transformation before undergoing digital transformation rather than during, ensures buy-in from employees from the very beginning of the process and facilitates swift execution out of the gates. If there is no time investment to make this happen, the digital transformation progress may be slow to take off.

For a data culture to thrive, data must be ingrained in the organization DNA, applied in its every corner, with employees empowered by and encouraged to act on data. When everyone in the organization is switched on to the potential of data, they use it, understand its potential and its limits, and know that data enables rather than blocks progress, you can simply say that you have a data culture.

How will the future of data culture look like?

According to a 2019 Gartner survey, by 2021, “80 per cent of midsize to large enterprises will change their culture as a way to accelerate their digital transformation strategy”.

Responding to the fact that the current culture could be perceived as an obstruction to digital transformation, 67 per cent of organizations have already undertaken or completed initiatives to change company culture, such as designing systems and processes that embed the desired culture in operations – and enable the culture to perform.

In this regard, leaders must build it into systems and processes, and provide business-unit leaders with support and resources to do the same.

We can support you to accelerate your approach, define your a new data mindset through Business and Predictive Analytics and help you understand tools such as Data Visualization and Data Science as a service that will drive core value, enable growth and a higher adoption of new technologies.

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