Steps to Data Informed Culture

01/29/2022 Collected and organized by Valmeek Kudesia

Make Data Accessible

  • Bring enough of important data to a single "place"

  • Deploy good-enough governance to reduce errors and confusion

  • Democratize access to data

  • Design use of data and system as an enabling environment

    • Quickly provide view of semi-raw data relevant to role in organization and leads to visibly improved performance

    • Align sophisticated uses of data with desired clinical identity

  • Make governance process ready to incorporate feedback from many consumers

  • Mature governance as data use and feedback grow

Focus on the Individual

  • Ensure data is aligned with role

  • Make clear that use of data is expected in role

  • Provide training and coaching to meet individuals "where they are" in data fluency

  • Cultivate embedded champions or ambassadors

  • Aim to raise data fluency of everyone at least a small amount

  • Aim to raise data fluency a large amount for individuals with some preexisting data fluency

Start Conversations About Data

  • Cultivate environment where data is valued as primary vehicle for decision-making and learning (experience + intuition = context)

  • Contextual positioning of data e.g. storylines, workflows

  • Safe place where data starts conversations; it doesn't end conversations

Cultivate a Data-Informed Community

  • Driven by engaged individual

  • Use of data during day-to-day is unavoidable

  • Individuals collaborate on challenges and share learning

  • Org is deliberate with changes and post-change monitoring

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