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Introduction to Data Culture

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Learn the key components of building a strong data culture within an organization.

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Course Description

Learn how to build a strong data culture

A strong data culture gives a business a competitive edge in almost any industry.

This course equips you with an understanding of the concepts and practical applications of building your own data culture. Suited for individual contributors and data leaders alike, you’ll uncover how to build a data culture from within, its contribution to business success, and how to measure progress through a maturity model.

Common challenges when building a data culture

Uncover insights into how data infrastructure and employee engagement might create challenges when building your data culture. This knowledge will help you prepare for success in building a data culture within your organization.

Learn the key roles and responsibilities needed to build a strong data culture

Regardless of technical expertise and industry, discover how different roles contribute to data culture. You'll learn the essentials of becoming a data leader, how it differs from executives, and what characteristics make a good data leader.

Upon completion, you’ll have the knowledge to empower your team to build a data culture that supports your organization's goals and drives success.

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What you'll learn

  • Assess the respective roles of executives, data leaders, technical teams, and data consumers in building and sustaining a data culture
  • Define the concept of data culture and the three components of decision-making, data literacy, and continuous improvement
  • Differentiate people-related challenges such as data silos, literacy, and ethics from process-related challenges including data quality, privacy, and security
  • Evaluate an organization’s current stage within a five-level data culture maturity model and recommend next steps
  • Identify the operational and financial benefits that a robust data culture delivers to organizations

Prerequisites

There are no prerequisites for this course

Curriculum

Course outline

1

Getting to Know Data Culture

Why should organizations cultivate a data culture? In this chapter, you'll learn what a data culture is, understand why it is crucial to business success, and know what factors could impose challenges in building a data culture.
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Data Culture in Depth

In this chapter, you'll learn how to assess an organization's data culture progress with a maturity model, understand why leadership and employee buy-ins play a crucial role, why we strive to build a sustainable data culture in addition to a regular data culture, and how different stakeholders could contribute to the process.
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