MIT Sloan Management Review Article on Top-Down Leadership for Data: Seven Ways to Get Started

Leaders can initiate successful data strategies by focusing on data quality, building organizational capabilities, and putting data to work in new ways.

For many senior executives, data presents a conundrum. Naturally, they want their data programs to succeed. Indeed, they’d like to help in some way, and even provide leadership, but beyond providing funding, they’re not sure how. Business leaders’ lack of technical knowledge exacerbates their uncertainty and makes them feel like outsiders to data science teams.

About the Author

Thomas C. Redman (@thedatadoc1) is president of consultancy Data Quality Solutions and author of Getting in Front on Data: Who Does What (Technics Publications, 2016).

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