Is there such a thing as "data culture," or is this just another buzzword?

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Director of IT in Travel and Hospitality, 10,001+ employees
Absolutely.  But it needs to be supported and  nurtured with time and resources.   You need a open collaborative data platform with a continuous effort made on outreach, training and useful content.
Director of Data in IT Services, 10,001+ employees
I would definitely say yes. It has two folds, one from the data management and governance perspective. Is the company doing the right things with data?
Another from the data users perspective. Everyone can get benefitted from data, for that matter. In general, do employees and management in the organization is data driven? Do they ask right questions before taking any decisions?  
Head of Transformation in Government, 501 - 1,000 employees
Absolutely there is a thing as "data culture." We all love to have fancy business analytics, reporting, and claim to manage by the numbers. But in reality most organisations are leading by experience, heuristics, power/politics, and momentum. Taking decisions on the basis of numbers is a culture shift that most organizations have not yet put in to play, although there are notable exceptions. Also related to data culture is the huge imbalance in deductive vs inductive analysis skills. And in a dynamic and ambiguous complex world, inductive analysis skills (which can be taught) enrich the culture of data in an organisation and permit people to explore uncertainties and analyse trends for real innovation. Patterns and hypothesis emerge from non-homogeneous and cross-domain data exploration with application of inductive analysis technique. Here again, the skills must be taught, but the culture must support a non-deductive approach.

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