Organizations that successfully adopt self-service Power BI tools like Power BI have cultures that encourage and reward the use of data.

This video introduces the role of the executive sponsor and the importance of having an engaged and empowered executive sponsor to help a data culture grow and thrive.

Video contents:

00:00 - Video intro 00:50 - Intro to importance of executive sponsor 01:50 - Top-down and bottom-up data cultures 02:45 - Chief Data Officer as predictor of success 04:08 - Executive sponsorship and the scope of a data culture 05:50 - Challenges arising from "junior" executive sponsor 09:18 - Risks of lacking executive sponsorship 10:49 - Summary and closing

For additional information on this topic, see https://ssbipolar.com/2020/01/13/data-culture-executive-sponsorship and https://ssbipolar.com/2020/01/14/tough-love-in-the-data-culture/

For the introduction to this series on building a data culture, see https://ssbipolar.com/2020/01/06/building-a-data-culture

For additional examples on the challenges of "junior" exec sponsors, see https://ssbipolar.com/2019/07/02/are-you-building-a-bi-house-of-cards/

For more Power BI and data culture content, check out the BI Polar blog at https://ssbipolar.com/.

Intro/outro music by Diablo Swing Orchestra https://www.freemusicarchive.org/music/Diablo_Swing_Orchestra/The_Butchers_Ballroom/Zodiac_Virtues

Sword logo artwork by Beth Hammer http://www.bethhammer.com/

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