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no votes. These are the data products that need to prove their value. Would
anyone miss them if they were gone? In the final step, stop distributing these
data products and see if anyone complains. If the data is being presented but
not used, it is a good bet your resources are better focused elsewhere.
“ONLy CONNECT”
Because knowledges are so specialized we need also a methodology, a
discipline, a process to turn this potential into performance. Otherwise,
most of the available knowledge will not become productive; it will
remain mere information. To make knowledge productive, we will
have to learn to connect.
—Peter Drucker, Pro-Capitalist Society
Drucker is referencing E.M. Forster's belief in the imperative of human con-
nection. This chapter is about connection and how to create the conditions
that facilitate connections. The six Ds are pillars that ensure data gets turned
into productive action, connecting people to the information that leads to
smarter decisions:
Demand is the connection of your organization's needs with the peo-
ple who will produce data products.
Design ensures quality outputs that will communicate to the audi-
ence.
Develop is the mechanism to create data products, the connective
glue that will deliver useful data to the people who can use it.
Discover is connecting supply and demand after data products have
been created.
Discuss is the collaboration between people to understand and digest
the meaning of the data.
Distill is the feedback loop that ensures organizational needs are
heard after a data product is created.
An ecosystem with these elements in place will allow data to flow freely, ensure
quality communication, and improve data products over time.
The conditions for a data fluent ecosystem are far from trivial. In fact, in our
decades of experience working with organizations that value data, we have
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