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Leadership Overview

Based on your respondents' answers for leadership your organisation is currently Developing
For leadership you and your colleagues scored your organisation 3.7 out of 5
The average score for leadership in the benchmark group is 3.2 out of 5

Leadership across the sector

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.
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