It’s all about the people!
Sian Basker from Data Orchard discusses organisational data maturity, a tool to assess it and their recently-launched ‘State of the Sector’ report.
Data Orchard has been researching thailand rcs data organisational data maturity since 2015. By ‘Data Maturity’ we mean an organisation’s journey towards improvement and increased capability in using data. After the first two years exploring what ‘poor’, ‘good’ and ‘great’ looked like (with qualitative in-depth under-the-bonnet exploration, and quantitative research), we published our first theoretical model in 2017.
The reality is that data is both complex and complicated. For this very reason a considerable proportion of people really dislike it, including leaders. In 2019 Data Orchard launched the world’s first data maturity assessment tool for the not-for-profit sector. Since then it’s been used by thousands of people from non-governmental organisations, the public sector, and universities (and quite a lot of commercial organisations too). The latest findings validate earlier research: Most leaders don’t see the value of data and are not able to use it to inform their decision-making.
The Data Maturity Framework
Data Orchard’s Data Maturity Framework identifies seven key themes that influence how an organisation advances in its maturity.