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

Everyone who needs access to data to perform their function has access. Everyone only has access to the data that they need to perform their function. Sensitive data, such as customer and prescription data, should be treated with extreme caution: highly restrict access, anonymize, and encrypt.

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

This may be the most impactful work that my team has done to date as it has reduced confusion, allows meaningful comparisons

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

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A data-driven culture is one that respects both the power of data and the humanity of the people who are the source of that data.

the CDO’s role must be to support those endeavors by providing guidance, higher-level strategy, and coordination. The CDO should also measure and monitor the effectiveness of those projects, driving work to maximize analytical ROI and impact.

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

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