Leadership Overview

Your Current Stage

Developing

• Becoming engaged, supportive, ask the right questions of the data, and active in harnessing its value.
• Data and analytics is becoming more of a priority for the organisation as a whole (and considerably so in some projects/teams).
• Data is becoming aligned to overarching business plan and desired impact.
• Monitors what’s happening in the present as well as past trends. Some exploratory forward-looking research and predictions.
• Data champion within senior management.
• Addressing skills gap in leadership as a whole including understanding around impact measurement and management.
• Actively implementing organisation-wide plans for improvement in data.
• Beginning to commit significant investment in people (job roles), skills, learning, and tools.

The next stage up for your organisation is

Mastering

• Value, plan and prioritise data and analytics as a vital organisational resource.
• Fully understand how to use data to improve what the organisation does.
• Data drives questions and the organisation is influenced by what data tells them.
• Viewed as a major organisational priority.
• Overarching business plan with clearly defined goals based on outcomes and differentiated impact, forecasting, and prediction of need.
• Use past, present and forward looking data for business planning and decision making (including forecasting, modelling, prediction and optimisation).
• Range of people with data and analytics expertise in leadership including at Board level.
• Invest substantially and continuously in improving data collection and analysis aligned to business plan.
• There’s a regular cycle of organisation-wide data planning, implementation and review.