Organisations that deliver through data
Richard Hamblin, Director of Health Quality Intelligence, Health Quality and Safety Commission will investigate how organisations can successfully drive delivery through data and analytics. His aim is to focus on understanding what makes a great leader of data-driven organisations. He wants to contribute to the public sector’s development of the right people to lead transformative data teams.
Richard will undertake research and visit organisations in New Zealand and overseas that have world-leading data and analytics teams, which have helped transform their organisations into being genuinely data-led. He wants to share the lessons of their success with the New Zealand public sector.
Follow Richard's research in his reports and blog updates
30 years down the wrong rabbit hole: how we got there and how we get out
"It’s all very well arguing that we need to use data in a different way and therefore we need data teams that look like this and are led like that, (and by the end of this fellowship process I may have some idea of what this and that look like), but a sceptic could perfectly reasonably ask 'why do we need to use data in a different way?' What follows is my answer, the reason why I embarked on this exercise."
READ: 30 years down the wrong rabbit hole: how we got there and how we get out (pdf)
So what? (and for that matter “how”?)
Richard's earlier paper suggested why we need to change how we view data in public services. Data should be seen as a source of insight rather than an instrument of control, and that where monitoring “targets” exist these should be locally relevant and mutually agreed rather than centrally imposed. What does that mean in practice, and how do we go about doing it?