We already know that software runs the world and that it’s essential to digitally transform your business if you want it to survive whatever twists and turns the future may bring. These words are easy to say, and yet difficult to do in practice. How do you help all employees, at all levels, make the changes they need to adapt?

One place to start is by increasing data literacy, both at the organizational and the individual level. That’s the only way we can begin to manage the vast amounts of data our systems are constantly generating. And it’s the only way we can begin to turn this data into insights we can use to make strategic decisions both large and small throughout our businesses.

We’re All in IT Now, So We Need to Speak Data

It’s true that today, IT touches nearly every stakeholder across a business. HR and marketing professionals, for example, now have their very own tech stack to manage that’s generating all sorts of new data. But it’s not realistic to assume you can fill your company with Ph.D.-level data scientists to make sense of it.