# Digital Infrastructure as a New Organizational Digital Climate Dimension
## 4 Results
### Data Lake  
Data lakes are a central repository where an organization can store all its data, regardless of source or format. They include structured and unstructured data from various sources in the organization, making it easier for managers to encourage employees to access and use the needed data. A data lake is critical in facilitating a digital climate that promotes data accessibility, data sharing, data extraction, and data-driven solutions. These four fundamental aspects empower employees to meet the management's expectations to share and use data through digital platforms. It aids in creating a digital climate that values and facilitates cooperation and collective intelligence. The data analysis revealed the four open codes of a data lake: data accessibility, data sharing, data extraction, and data-driven solutions. The participants view data accessibility as the capacity to access and retrieve data, enabling users to derive value from it and use it as a tool to accomplish their tasks. Regarding data accessibility, for instance, interviewees claimed, \"After gaining access to data and the ability to extract data, we discovered a whole new layer of potential, which radically altered our ability to address the unit's challenges.\" Data accessibility aids employees in meeting their manager's perceptions concerning data sharing and dissemination. For example, in our case study organization, managers claimed that data accessibility will help their employees to handle complicated tasks, due to the ability to reach new and relevant knowledge. However, without a suitable digital infrastructure that can overcome challenges such as connectivity malfunctions, data latency, and bandwidth limitations, data accessibility could be compromised. This could result in a low digital climate due to the inability to meet the organization's expected level of data usage among employees. The following example quotations emphasize the necessity of data accessibility in relation to the digital climate:  
1. \"Sometimes the infrastructure and information are unavailable, preventing me from accessing the digital services and using data I require to do my tasks.\"
2. \"Although my manager demands to use digital capabilities, there are digital capabilities that the organization didn't prioritize, mainly in the context of arranging information and making it accessible.\"Participants emphasized the significance of data sharing in operational activities and knowledge creation as a mechanism for collaborative work within and between units, with the capacity to seamlessly link individuals, systems, services, and data in operational and managerial contexts to enhance organizational performance. This, in turn, influences the establishment of a data-sharing environment. Based on the participants' views, data sharing is an expected behavior that enables resource utilization as organizations can avoid redundant efforts by building upon each other's work. The following example quotation adds to the understanding of the meaning of data sharing in the context of a digital climate:  
1. \"We believe in digital processes and work for their development and implementation. For instance, the organizational connectivity initiative connects all the units' data-sharing capabilities and produces information and knowledge exchange capabilities, as expected behavior in both the operational and managerial arena.\"
2. \"We understand that at the cultural level, the ability to talk about data sharing, assisting in cross-organizational work, and sharing knowledge, all contribute to the organization, therefore it accounts as expected behavior.\"  
One of the most frequently mentioned open codes in the participants' responses is data extraction, which was mentioned over 50 times. The analysis of the participants' interview data extraction is a process that produces new capacities and opportunities to deal with complicated systems based on many data sources.