Transform Your Enterprise Data Culture With These Three Mindset Shifts
Solutions Review, Tuesday, September 19,2023
Remember the movie 'Office Space?' In the 1999 film, Peter is a disenchanted and overworked software engineer who's constantly reprimanded for not completing his 'TPS reports' - data reports that required inhumane amounts of busy work, including sending the reports around daily with a very specific cover sheet.
Today, knowledge workers should be able to focus on creating value through their work, but in many enterprise data cultures, the data knowledge workers need is not accessible. Data owners are concerned that, if given unfettered access, workers will mishandle that data or, worse, draw inaccurate conclusions and steer their company off a cliff.
In actuality, hoarding data slows organizations down. A lot. In a recent survey of 2,800 data leaders, Alteryx found that the majority of organizations reported not giving decision-makers access to relevant data despite acknowledging that employees make better decisions when this data is made available.