When is this relevant?
“What is really the added value of Business Intelligence?”, and “why is the report never correct and is a it always so complicated when I ask a question?” or simply “we need to become data-driven, but where do we start?”, are comments you regularly hear in the corridors. Especially when the promised return on investment in data warehouses, data lakes and KPI dashboards is disappointing and no one understands why this is so, these kinds of questions increase.
A key explanation for this is the ever-growing dilemma that data and its expectations continue to grow exponentially, but people’s skills (also called data literacy) & available time to actually do something with it are lagging. We also call this the “BI gap.
Do you recognize yourself in this? Then read on to find out how you could solve this. Investing in technology is something that happens on a large scale, but with all the investment in data and technology and the lagging of that investment in the skills of the people who have to use it, the BI gap is widening. Without training people in data-driven work, the deployment of all these techniques is doomed to fail and the expected returns will not materialize.
Why invest in data literacy?
Educating your managers & employees on how to use data while doing their jobs and thus leverage the true potential of your BI environment is the goal of this data accelerator. We help your organization increase your data literacy and embrace a data-driven PDCA cycle in their daily work. These two elements ensure that the BI gap is reduced and that your organization is given concrete tools on where to start in data-driven work.
We do this through intensive training and coaching. Trainings are delivered in-company with a proven foundation and working content, where details can be tailored to the needs of the organization. By deploying this training program within your organization and involving not only managers but also data analysts or members of the various project groups working on data initiatives, we stimulate cooperation between managers and executive colleagues.
This allows managers to have guided practice in preparing a concrete question for data analysts that they actually understand. For data analysts, the exercise of doing a data analysis and presenting the outcome in a good way so that managers can move forward with it is a very valuable exercise. For the rest of the organization, it is particularly important to understand what you can achieve with data and why this is important.
What does the training program look like?
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Organizing an inspiration and urgency session regarding the opportunities of data and data-driven work;
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A check-in session for employees to increase data literacy from practice;
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A data-driven PDCA training course for managers & employees;
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Workshop in which managers & data analysts work together on concrete use cases from practice in 6 day parts under supervision.
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A training course for data analysts where they are trained in communicating the results and their relevance to the organization;
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Basic Microsoft Power BI Training;
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Building data community with the DataDoing methodology;
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Workshop developing profile of a data-driven manager.
We determine the exact composition of the training program during an intake where we look at the current maturity level and the needs of your organization. It is also possible to implement this training program in phases.
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