Video Card - Connecting data literacy to business strategy

Video: Connecting data literacy to business strategy

Aligning data literacy with business strategy can identify skill gaps and clarify the best places to invest in learning and capacity development, but where do you start.

Our expert panel discusses what data literacy means to them and their business, how it can be defined in society and why leadership engagement is crucial to changing your organisation's culture.

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Watch our webinar: how to connect data literacy to business strategy using The Data Skills Framework

On this webinar, explore how organisations like the BBC, Lloyds of London and the Co-op use the ODI Data Skills framework to first align their data literacy programmes to their strategy, then identify skill gaps and clarify the best places to invest in learning and capacity development.

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Mapping data literacy: The data skills framework

The Data Skills Framework shows how technical data skills can be balanced with other skills to support successful data innovation.

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Explore data ecosystems: try our online board game

Datopolis is a board game about building things – services, websites, devices, apps, research – using closed and open data. It was designed and developed by Ellen Broad and Jeni Tennison at the Open Data Institute.

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Setting strategy: Data 2020: Skills, engagement and data literacy

Employees and companies recognise the value in working with data, but recent research uncovered that 85% of such projects fail and only 8% of leaders report complete satisfaction with the outcome.

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Learn with the ODI: join our online Strategic Data Skills course

This comprehensive online course is for people who want to work strategically with data, but don’t need or want to learn complex programming.

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