Data literacy is a key enabler of the value and impact from data. How are you approaching this within your organisation?
The collective achievement of civil service teams across the Covid response was equipping the public with an understanding of how data and analysis was used to assess the impact of the pandemic, and how policy interventions changed the rates of disease prevalence.
Our nation of armchair epidemiologists expressed opinions based on the interpretation of insights on the Covid dashboard, R-value, and charts shown on the 5pm briefing; remember phrases such as “data not dates” and “turn the curve”?
Using my learnings from the creation and use of these products, my challenge in 2024 is to build and embed a programme of data literacy in BAE Systems: an organisation of 90,000 spanning a broad range of professions, generations, and data literacy.
Digital enablement is at the heart of transformation in 2024. The successful uptake and adoption of our new ways of working will be based on the training coming from our digital academy. I am pitching for this to be sponsored by our executive committee, which I hope will bring an increased focus on the enhancement of data literacy across the varied roles, grades, and aptitude throughout the business.