Embrace adata-driven culture |
It’s hard for any organization to sustain success indefinitely. To stay
relevant, organizations must periodically reinvent themselves. The
introduction of cloud computing set off a generation of reinvention.
Now the next wave of reinvention is clearly being driven by data.
Leaders need to be able to rely on solid, meaningful data to make
decisions now and prepare for what’s ahead.
Doing that requires building a data-driven organization. Essentially,
such organizations treat data like an organizational asset, no longer
the property of individual departments. They set up systems to collect, store, organize, and process valuable data and make it available
in secure ways to the people and applications that need it. Then —
and here’s the key — they use that data to inform those all-important business decisions.
