Data Literates Data Literates

In this episode, we spoke with Sanne Hombroek. Sanne is the Chapter Lead Data Analytics @ ING Netherlands. We discussed how ING adopted the tribe and guild model (the Spotify model) to expand data literacy at the enterprise. Spotify's agile organization model has been a great source of inspiration for many companies. Sanne walked us through some of the data literacy activities that happen at ING such as mentoring programs, gamification (data escape room), and seminars.

Helena Sternkopf developed a maturity and competency model to define data literacy. Helena's work has been a great source of inspiration for us. You can discover the Enterprise Data Literacy Program that we developed here: https://www.axisgroup.com/axis-academy

Removing the silos and collaborating on data projects in organizations are crucial parts of the data literacy programs. Games can be an effective means to bring this understanding to teams. In this episode, we talked to Simon Bullmore about Datopolis, the board game that was designed by the Open Data Institute. As you play the game, you need to collaborate with other players to maintain the health of the fictional city of Sheridan while plotting your path to victory.

In this episode of the Data Literates, you will hear from Farbod Nasiri. Farbod is the Senior Human Capital Transformation Director at PWC. He summed up his experience around enabling organizations with thousand to hundred thousand employees through designing employee experience programs. We focused on how data and data literacy initiatives will transform the way HR organizations operate and make decisions.

In this episode of the Data Literates, you will hear from Fi Gordon. If you are a member of the data viz fam, you know Fi for sure. Fi’s energy and charisma are contagious. We had a ton of fun talking to her about her successful implementation of The Tableau Quest at CommSec. The Tableau Quest is a gamified data literacy program to improve speed to insights, increase adoption of Tableau, and expand the awareness around the art of possible with data.

In this first podcast, we start with a brief intro of who we are and what we’re going to cover. We then move into Milad’s Twitter Board to discuss recent events and posts from the wonderful Data Literacy community, including OpenData, Data Literacy efforts in Singapore, insights from Qlik’s CEO Mike Capone, the Data Literacy Conference, and a few other topics.

The main topic for this month is one of our 5 Cs of Data Literacy, Culture, which is what we focus on for the second half of the podcast. We go over AnMar, or Analytics Marketing, the process by which we create internal marketing around the data and analytics within an organization and give a practical example of a client in which we’ve employed this tactic.

We end with a client story about how a negative culture and using gut feelings over data-based decisions can lead to a very poor outcome, and a CIO getting fired. Enjoy!