Data literacy is a key enabler of the value and impact from data. How are you approaching this within your organisation?
Data literacy and building the knowledge and understanding about data is a key aspect of our overall Data Strategy and fundamental to our ambitions regarding data within the organisation.
We have just kicked off our dedicated data literacy programme at the Crown Estate, starting with our first cohort this year. Working with a specialist third party, the programme is a well-defined series of activities tailored to groups at different stages of their data maturity. It involves a number of modules covering the foundations of data, interpreting and communicating data, technical training on analysis, and visualisation tools and storytelling with data. There is formal training within each module followed by sessions to add The Crown Estate context. The data literacy programme runs in cohorts and lasts seven months for each group and will be rolled out across the whole organisation.
This specific activity is part of a wider comms and engagement programme around data and analytics at The Crown Estate. This includes posts on our internal website, Data Academy, digital newsletter articles, video podcasts, value creation spotlights, town hall sessions, lunch and learns, one to ones with key stakeholders, presentations at leadership events, and communities of practice. There will be particular focus on data management and governance with our data champions network, which includes the data ownership and stewardship community. Teams are also now being encouraged to attend external networking events and conferences as well as inviting partners to come in and present at internal events.