How important is data to your organisation?

If you’re working in one of the data teams then it’s useful to consider how important data is to your organisation. Does it (or something driven by it, such as ML/AI) appear in your company strategy? How easy is it to get investment for people and tooling? Where in the org chart does your data team sit?

If your organisation takes actions that demonstrate data is important then use that as an opportunity to ask for more. I’m not talking about more investment - but more from the rest of the organisation.

For example, how much effort is put into the data generation? How does that affect the data quality? Could a little more effort upfront allow you to release your (and your organisations) goals more quickly or with a better outcome?