What's the biggest data strategy challenge for agencies?

What's the biggest data strategy challenge for agencies?
Jul 18, 2024
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The number one data strategy challenge for federal agency IT professionals and mission leaders is the same: insufficient communication between IT leadership and users of data.

Federal agencies are still being plagued by the age-old existence of silos that operate independently and may treat data as proprietary. The majority of both mission leaders (51%) and IT professionals (51%) report that insufficient communication between IT leadership and users of the data is their agency’s biggest data strategy challenge. Nearly 2 in 5 data and analytics professionals (38%) also see it as an issue.

A human-centered approach to data can help. Keeping people at the center not only turns data into more meaningful insights, but ensures that people will get the right data in the right way. Here’s how to do it.