S3 | Ep 5 | Why Data Literacy Won’t be the Cornerstone to Success with Malcolm Hawker, Head of Data Strategy at Profisee

<p>In Episode 5 of Season 3, of Driven By Data: The Podcast, Kyle Winterbottom is joined by Malcolm Hawker, Head of Data Strategy at Profisee, where they discuss why Data Literacy isn't the key to success, which includes;</p><ul><li>The benefits of starting his career in Product </li><li>His time at Gartner; the 1500+ conversations he had with CDO’s and why he left </li><li>Why there are so few successful use cases of Data &amp; Analytics initiatives</li><li>Why so few Data Leaders do what they’d advise others to do </li><li>Why we talk a good game about failing fast but no organisation incentivises that to happen </li><li>Why it’s up to the Data Leader to instigate the required change required to improve the current dysfunction </li><li>Why most CDO’s are walking into Lions dens </li><li>How it is absolutely possible to quantify the commercial benefit of our data initiatives despite some claiming it’s not</li><li>How models can help us to quantify the value we create </li><li>Why we need to stop debating semantics</li><li>Why organisations continue to (rightfully) invest in Data &amp; Analytics despite not seeing great success </li><li>Why the data community can come across as “preachy” and “finger wavey” in communicating best practices </li><li>Why data literacy is a loaded term that turns the table of accountability </li><li>Why it’s a product problem and not a user problem </li><li>Why it always come down to centralisation V decentralisation and why you need to do both! </li><li>The future of data sharing and the economies of scale it can create</li></ul><br/>