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

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;The benefits of starting his career in Product His time at Gartner; the 1500+ conversations he had with CDO’s and why he left Why there are so few successful use cases of Data & Analytics initiativesWhy so few Data Leaders do what they’d advise others to do Why we talk a good game about failing fast but no organisation incentivises that to happen Why it’s up to the Data Leader to instigate the required change required to improve the current dysfunction Why most CDO’s are walking into Lions dens How it is absolutely possible to quantify the commercial benefit of our data initiatives despite some claiming it’s notHow models can help us to quantify the value we create Why we need to stop debating semanticsWhy organisations continue to (rightfully) invest in Data & Analytics despite not seeing great success Why the data community can come across as “preachy” and “finger wavey” in communicating best practices Why data literacy is a loaded term that turns the table of accountability Why it’s a product problem and not a user problem Why it always come down to centralisation V decentralisation and why you need to do both! The future of data sharing and the economies of scale it can create