Top 5 Takeaways How Analytics Can Take State and Local Data to the Next Level

Description: Analytics can offer countless benefits to a public sector organization, improving agility and operational efficiency while reducing risk for agencies. Data fuels digital transformation, but the sheer volume and variety of public sector data collected from internal employee data — from HR to finance to management — can be overwhelming to state and local agencies, which often have shoestring budgets and limited resources. In fact, almost 40 percent of respondents to a 2018 Pew Charitable Trusts survey reported that data accessibility, data quality or data sharing is the greatest obstacle to state government work. But city managers can help to overcome this challenge by thinking proactively about how they can harness, organize and manage data, with the aim to turn it into actionable insights.