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Recognising the business benefits of winning an award

[…] because we deliver.” D’Cruz recognises that the work of the team “has enabled increased collaboration, transparency, business efficiencies and has ultimately driven the agenda of data literacy across the European region,” proving how winning awards can change the perceptions of data teams and the role they play across the business. When considering […]

Agentic AI discussion at the DataIQ conference.

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How do you persuade business decision makers to follow the data?

Data practitioners know first-hand the importance of following the data to make key strategic decisions – but how can business decision makers be persuaded?

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How analysts are changing football

[…] mapped and exploited. This gradual acceptance of data into football has relied on cultural factors as much as it has technological advancement. Overcoming data-scepticism and poor data literacy. Establishing a data culture. Identifying relevant insights. Issues that analysts in the football world face, and continue to face, are familiar to analysts everywhere. The message […]

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Diversity, equity and inclusion to be celebrated at the 2022 DataIQ Awards

[…] as possible.” Now in its 10th year, the ceremony will spotlight great work, people and teams in 25 categories across five focus areas, including: People Culture Data literacy Innovation Data for good DataIQ received a record 292 submissions in 2021, up from 202 in 2020. A full list of last year’s winners can be […]

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Data for social purpose in the London Borough of Camden

The London Borough of Camden’s CDIO Tariq Khan discusses the council’s data-driven pandemic response and its ambitious new data strategy.

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Reach for the stars: How The Telegraph is deploying editorial analytics

[…] and poor practice can quickly reappear if data culture is ignored, even within organisations with an advanced level of data maturity. DataIQ research reveals that poor data literacy is joint with data silos as the most prevalent threat to an organisation being able to consume data effectively. The 10-1-23 strategy also led to Wicks […]

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CDO Challenges – What it takes to be a leader

In this instalment of CDO Challenges, we examine what it takes for data professionals to become a leader in their organisation, focusing on skills and attitudes that are required to drive a business to new data heights.

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CDO Challenges – Budgets for data

This edition of CDO Challenges looks at what a CDO should think about for a data office budget as business finances can be a topic that few data leaders are familiar with.

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Developing future talent – Anumana Code Academy

Data leaders are creating academies and programmes to reach young students to remove the barriers to entry for data careers and improve diversity in future talent pipelines.

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CDO Challenges – Keeping attention and interest in data developments

This edition of CDO Challenges looks at keeping attention and growing interest in the data team after battling to gain the attention of decision makers and stakeholders.

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CDO Challenges – Shadow IT

This instalment of CDO Challenges examines addressing the issue of shadow IT within data offices and the wider organisation and how it can affect operations.

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CDO Challenges – Ensuring data ethics

[…] and capabilities, and this will likely happen in the future too. In the same way that there needs to be regular housekeeping when it comes to data literacy capabilities, data ethics knowledge and training must also be maintained, monitored and re-evaluated regularly to ensure the highest levels of quality. This can be achieved through […]

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Technophobia – The fear that data businesses should be scared of

Technophobia is a problem with many facets that vary between teams and organisations, so what can be done to address the problem without alienating staff?

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How well do you (need to) know your models? – A DataIQ member report

ML and AI tools have exploded in use for data organisations, but what more can be done to improve quality, compliance and efficiency with the models? DataIQ member Robert Bates, head of decision sciences, Currys, provides expert insight in this report.

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Leveraging data within an AI strategy

[…] different teams within an organisation to emphasise correct data practices to exceed compliance obligations, maintain safety for the business and its customers and to continually improve data literacy levels to match technological advancements. To set the foundations for success, an organisation needs to have the right ecosystem and infrastructure in place. This can […]

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DataIQ DEI Working Group – Initial challenges, finding allies and assessing impacts

[…] going to schools in Bermondsey, London in the mornings for career mentoring with Year 9 students and then on different days I visited at lunchtimes to do literacy coaching supporting reading and writing development for Year 4 students. This was then scaled across the UK, and I expanded the reach through the DEI network […]

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Skills shortage and technology should not be a barrier to entry to become a data-driven business

[…] operations, sales and finance when the data culture of the organisation is maturing. It will still require a change in data culture and the need for data literacy education across the business, but the difficulties of introducing new tools and technologies are drastically reduced. “In practice, many organisations have failed to leverage analytics […]

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How do we implement machine learning ops within our data tech stack?

[…] to decision makers. There were calls from the roundtable to create data catalogues and dictionaries for internal use, as well as to improve the storytelling and data literacy capabilities of the team. Some felt they knew already where their data was located, with one business representative explaining how their organisation had been actively migrating […]

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CDO Challenges – Smashing silos

This instalment of CDO Challenges examines how data silos can be addressed by data leaders to ensure effective communication, cooperation and compliance.

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How to drive successful data transformations

[…] struggle to create the data-driven culture needed to positively reshape the customer relationship. Blockers come in the form of familiar issues such as legacy IT, poor data literacy and a lack of senior sponsorship. Organisations that have yet to overcome these obstacles risk being left behind, not least because transforming isn’t a one-off process. […]

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