Data Fluency: Unlock the Potential Energy of Data in Your Organization
In many ways, data is like oil—and it is certainly so in the economic engine of your organization. Just like you can’t pull crude oil from the ground and pump it directly into your gas tank, or mold it into a plastic LEGO® brick, you can’t dump data into an organization and expect it to be useful. Creating value from data is a complex puzzle; one that few organizations have solved. Although there isn’t a simple answer (and thus why so many organizations struggle), the good news is that understanding the nature of the problem offers a starting point for our path forward. Data fluency is the path—the ability to use the language of data to fluidly exchange and explore ideas that are important to your organization.
In this book, the goal is to help you unlock the potential of data in your organization. Your data challenges have less to do with technologies and organizational constraints...