Data and Organisational Culture

In this chapter we begin to address how to make the case for data within your own organisation. This means wrestling with what it means to have a positive/receptive data culture in your organisation, as well as the psychology of individual decision-making. We then touch upon working across a complex organisation, and how to foster collaboration with stakeholders and communities of practice. We describe the purpose and formulation of a data-enabled organisational strategy, data vision statement, data principles, and identify the data capabilities required to deliver these. We then dive into example use cases and benefits statements that one might encounter in a built environment organisation, before finishing with a description of the data roles and skills that you are likely to require to deliver and embed your data capabilities.