3. MEASURE
Setting targets for data literacy based on your organization’s business model helps quantify the impact of data culture initiatives.
Success Indicators
Performance metrics are critical indicators of how well a data literacy initiative is working. Identify which metrics need to improve as data use increases and assess progress at regular intervals to know where to tweak your training program.
Having the right learning targets will improve data literacy in areas that boost business performance. And quantifying the business value generated by data literacy programs can encourage buy-in
from executives.
Ultimately, collecting metrics, use cases and testimonials can help the organization show a strong correlation between higher data literacy and better business outcomes.
Data-Skills Assessments
Using self-reporting or formal evaluations to assess the data literacy of individuals enables companies to know where support is or isn’t needed—or even what solutions may help. Dashboards can be useful to show managers the data sources that employees use and can also reveal strengths and weaknesses in
data processes.
“Having a formal education program in place is incredibly important, because any formal education is going to include assessments,” Nell-Rodriquez said. “That’s going to give you a prescribed learning path based off of where employees need to go.”
Success Indicators
Data-Skills Assessments