Inside the minds of business leaders
Methodology
The results presented in this report are based on three separate mobile-only, 23-question global surveys conducted between September 2018 and January 2019. These surveys targeted manager, director, vice-president or C-Level executives with influence in the decision-making process of cloud solutions, platforms, and infrastructure or department-specific software. Respondents worked within organisations generating revenues between less than £1 million to more than £500 million, with 100 to 50,000 employees.
Maturity model methodology
Each respondent was scored based on the maturity of their answers to three questions on the topics of internal protocols around data use, teaching people to use data responsibly, and the methods they use to share critical data. Higher scores were given to the answers that are closest to best practice. This resulted in a spread of responses across the scale. The top 10% of the total respondents are classified as ‘data leaders’ and the bottom 10% are ‘data laggards’. The IT department is over-represented in the leaders group, whereas other departments are under-represented.
