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    Home»Promoted Content»SA firms are not taking data literacy seriously enough

    SA firms are not taking data literacy seriously enough

    Promoted Content By iOCO20 November 2019
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    With spending on data and analytics projects projected to rise above US$200-billion in 2020, the need for a data-literate workforce has never been more important.

    Gartner’s third annual CDO survey cited poor data literacy as the second most significant roadblock to data and analytics project success, and yet companies still grapple with how to tackle the issue.

    “We discuss this with our clients all the time,” says Nik Eveleigh, principal consultant – data & analytics at iOCO.

    The best toolsets are all incredibly powerful and versatile and so vendors are now having to differentiate themselves by driving a cultural agenda

    “Companies are placing strategic emphasis on self-service analytics and data-driven decision making but they are not focusing enough on bringing their people along for the journey.”

    Infrastructure and licence costs, complexity and other technical factors have traditionally been major inhibitors to success in the data and analytics space, but with toolsets becoming increasingly feature-rich and intuitive, subscription models becoming the norm and a general shift towards the cloud, the nature of the problem has changed.

    This, Eveleigh believes, has led to major vendors placing greater emphasis on the cultural aspect of change than ever before.

    “The best toolsets are all incredibly powerful and versatile and so vendors are now having to differentiate themselves by driving a cultural agenda. Tableau Blueprint is a step-by-step guide to building a data culture; thedataliteracyproject.org is underpinned by training material developed by Qlik. Every leading player understands they now have to focus on people.”

    Process of reinvention

    This process of reinvention is not restricted to toolset vendors. Established consulting houses plying their trade in the realms of business intelligence, data and analytics have long relied on providing technical expertise to clients, often in partnership with these same industry-leading vendors who are now shifting their focus.

    For consultancies to stay relevant in this changing world they, too, need to adopt a far more balanced approach — a suggestion that Eveleigh strongly agrees with.

    “The notion of simply selling a software licence and then placing a technical expert at a client to build reports and dashboards ad nauseum is outdated. At iOCO, we’ve been aware of this for some time and our focus is on those areas where we can bring true value to our customers.

    Our approach is simple. We partner with clients to help them define and realise their data goals

    “We are data people — culturally and technically — and we understand the value of data literacy both to ourselves and to those we partner with. Helping people to navigate a toolset, or to understand and view their data with confidence, has always been at the heart of what we do — data literacy is just a nice term to encapsulate it.

    “We don’t believe you can buy a box of data literacy, so we haven’t tried to build one. Our approach is simple. We partner with clients to help them define and realise their data goals. Our data literacy assessment helps shape a solution road map that is tailored to each client’s unique data landscape, is mindful of both cultural and technical challenges, and speaks to our core areas of consulting expertise.

    “When our clients succeed, we succeed — and we believe a confident, empowered, data-literate user base is critical to this success.”

    Connect with iOCO by e-mailing us at dataliteracy@iOCO.tech.

    About iOCO
    Established to simplify ICT, integrate client offerings, drive governance imperatives and align service delivery, iOCO offers modern solutions that meet the demands of the cloud economy and the fourth Industrial Revolution.

    With over 20 years’ experience in ICT solutions, iOCO understands the importance of adaptation to deliver tomorrow’s solutions, today. Inspired by digitally native Internet organisations (iO) and creative organisations (CO) of the future, the essence of the iOCO brand is the coming together of a community of great people with the best technology to serve humanity.

    Offering open digital integrator, enterprise applications, data and analytics, compute and platforms, and manage and operate solutions, iOCO helps customers navigate the path to an exponential future. To achieve this vision, iOCO holds strategic OEM partnership agreements with more than 90 global leaders, including Qlik.

    For more information, please visit ioco.tech.

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