Culture Overview

Your Current Stage

Emerging

• Data is seen as the responsibility of ‘someone else’, usually in an administrative role.
• Recognition that data should be collected but it is not seen as a ‘whole team’ activity.
• Data mostly sought out and used to support and evidence what the organisation already believes or knows.
• Organisation’s culture doesn’t encourage data sharing across teams, though this may occur occasionally verbally or via reports.
• Data never shared externally except for legal/contractual reporting purposes.
• Basic policies for data protection and security may be in place but not monitored or enforced.

The next stage up for your organisation is

Learning

• Data is starting to be recognised as important at a more senior level.
• People across the organisation are starting to talk about how they can work together to deliver better data for decision making.
• Beginning to ask challenging questions of the data: why? What’s changing? what difference are we making? (mostly about the past.)
• Access to data may be limited by default rather than design.
• People would like to share more but may be constricted by access/permissions/cultural barriers.
• Some data insights are shared with partners, networks, and in the public domain.
• Data protection and security policies are in place.
• Senior management have some limited understanding of legislation and the organisation’s responsibilities.