Why a strategic focus on what we’re NOT going to do, is going to make us happier, more creative, and better at what we ARE going to do.
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In October we launched our 2024 report on data maturity in the nonprofit sector. Here’s a summary of what we found and what’s happening next.
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Our data maturity assessment is five years old! Here, Sian reflects on the tool's journey, growth and impact.
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If your data is in a mess, why not join us in our 15-minute data cleanup challenge and save the planet while doing so...
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Here, our Co-CEO Sian Basker writes about her personal reflections on reading the thought-provoking book ‘Uncharted’ by Margaret Heffernan, including how it encouraged her to imagine a positive future.
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At Data Orchard we say goodbye and thank you to our former Chair Nancy James and welcome her successor Suraj Vadgama and new Vice Chair Noreen Blanluet.
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Sian Basker on why this month marks a major milestone in Data Orchard's life. We're celebrating our 10th birthday and launching our 2023-26 strategy with renewed focus and excitement.
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Sian Basker, Co CEO at Data Orchard, explains how thinking of your data as music and your organisation as an orchestra is a useful metaphor for data maturity.
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Our Co-Chief Executive Sian Basker reflects on the year that was 2021-22 for Data Orchard.
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Our Co-Chief Executive, Sian Basker, reflects on every CEO's very special relationship with data, especially at annual report writing time... The love and joy, the pain and frustration of wrestling all that data into the story your organisation wants to tell about its past, but also, its future.
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Our Co-Chief Executive, Sian - who authored our latest State of the Sector report - distills down some of the key findings, insights and - importantly - lessons that not-for-profit leaders can take from the research if they want to improve data maturity in their organisation.
Read MoreCo-Chief Executive Sian Basker has been thinking about how important our evolving theory of data maturity is to all of our work.
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Information around pay gaps is (slowly) becoming more available. But what can it do for us? Our Co-Chief Executive, Sian has been exploring the data, and pondering whether more openness and transparency can drive faster and better solutions to poverty and inequality.
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We revisit our trial with Superhighways to test out using our organisational Data Maturity Assessment with one of their cohorts of organisations – Datawise London.
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Our report - State of the Sector - Data Maturity in the Not-for-Profit Sector 2020 - explores the data from the first 15 months of use of our Data Maturity Assessment tool. So, what does the data tell us?
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People often ask us how Data Orchard came about and how we came to develop our Data Maturity Assessment tool, so we thought we’d write a blog to tell our story.
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We’re thrilled to be working with Collaborative Future on a really innovative programme, which may be of interest to many of you. The programme matches young talent with businesses for six-month internships aimed at encouraging diversity of background and experience.
Read MoreIn 2020 we began a trial with Superhighways to test out using our organisational Data Maturity Assessment with one of their cohorts of organisations – Datawise London.
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We’re delighted to announce that we’ve been named finalists in the British Data Awards 2021, for both the ‘Data for Good Initiative of the Year’ and the ‘Not-For-Profit of the Year’ categories.
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The national census is a rare and momentous occasion, especially if you’re a champion of data for good. Understanding our changing population and changing needs are vital for planning for our future.
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