Elevating Enterprise Data Literacy: Data Governance, Data Literacy, and the Management of Data
Channel: DATAVERSITY
Date: 2023-06-05

For many organizations, the flow of data is the bloodstream that keeps operations alive. Success depends on having accurate, efficient, timely, and consistent processes that govern the creation, movement, and digestion of data. Every step is critical. 

Virtually every employee touches (and impacts) data at some point in its trajectory. Yet, too often, any decision or action regarding data is assumed to be the responsibility of people in the analytic department.  

Calls for company-wide data literacy often result from the realization that data quality is being compromised or output is being misinterpreted by users outside the “data” departments. The organization begins to realize that almost everyone has a data responsibility. 

In this session, we explore dependencies that require a degree of literacy from “non-data” workers.