Our 'People and Organisation Readiness' checklist

A.     Changing behaviours of non-technical staff
Examples: 'Feeling empowered to experiment with data and make mistakes, without fear of being blamed'
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'Learning to ‘trust the data’ (but also to question it)'

'Avoid optimisation in individual silos
​at the expense of company-wide optimisation'

<------------------------ Company-wide ------------------------>

Marketing

Sales

Finance

Supply Chain

C.     Transition to the ‘Digital Board’
Examples: 'Helping Senior Leadership Team understand ‘The Art of the Possible’ - changing decision-making culture from ‘gut-feel’ to Data-Driven'
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'Do leaders know where their company is on the analytics ‘journey’, and are they equipped to specify the role for (and hire) a Chief Data Officer, or similar?'

D.     Guidelines - organisation of Analytics teams
Examples: 'Ensuring the data strategy they develop reflects the organisation strategy and goals (not created in isolation)' 

'Structuring teams to make sure the most expensive resources are used effectively (Data Scientists - according to a recent survey - typically spend only 40% of their time on Data Science, the rest on data preparation'

B.     Culture Change (rather than transformation)
Examples: 'Creating & communicating a clear roadmap for the analytics journey: starting point (analytics maturity), direction of travel and key milestones - but not necessarily a final destination',

'Communicating with those affected by changes from analytics deployment – whatever their job'

'Promoting trust and transparency via ‘Single Version of the Truth’