Culminating Project for Data Driven
Decision Making Part 1
Getting Started with Data Driven
Decision Making: A Workbook
Directions ............................................................................................................................................................... 1
Worksheets
1. Define Your Action Question .................................................................................................................... 3
2. What Does This Question Mean To Your Organization?................................................................................. 5
3. How Will You Know What the Right Metrics Are? ....................................................................................... 6
4. What Could You Measure? ................................................................................................................................. 7
5. What Data Do You Have? ....................................................................................................................... 9
6. Find The Metrics That Make Sense For You ................................................................................................. 10
7. The Metric Creation Process .............................................................................................................................. 11
8. Define a Process for Using Them to Make Decisions ............................................................................ 12
9. Create an Implementation Action Plan ......................................................................................................... 13
Could you use more help thinking through how to use data to help your organization make decisions? If so,
you’re not alone. Recent reports on how organizations are using data has shown that although most are
relying heavily on data, a number are doing very little to measure their work.
Measuring may not be as difficult as you suspect. Experts...