Can your data support what’s required in 2026?
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About this survey:
2026 will feature major and important challenges for your organization:
Will you be ready for AI adoption and use?
Can you respond quickly enough to new demands for increasingly sophisticated customer, market, operational, or financial questions?
Will you be able to show that you are following legal, regulatory, and ethical guidelines for how you use all kinds of information?
How about the increased diversity and intensity of bad actors trying to steal or destroy your data?
It will no longer be enough to just "delegate to technology or data people". As a customer-facing or operations executive, you too will need to be able to know enough about these questions to be able to operate effectively.
This short (<15 minute) assessment has 6 sections of 3 to 8 questions each:
1. General information about your organization and your role. This puts your answers into context.
Then, we'll look at whether your organization has data practices that make it easier/harder to:
2. Be ready for AI? We'll review how easy/hard it is to know whether your organization's use of data for AI is reliable, efficient, and trustworthy.
3. Spend the same, or less money on data while responding to higher demands? Organizations are expected to continue to cut expenses to meet growing competitive and structural pressures. Will you be able to deliver more and better data with less technology and operations budget?
4. Make it easier to get and use the data you need? With users increasing their demands for easier and different kinds of information, organizations will need to increase self-service and multi-format data handling.
5. Use data in a way that meets or exceeds the expectations of customers, regulators, and other important stakeholders? 2026 will feature even greater emphasis on tradeoffs for privacy, ESG, and trade restrictions.
6. Assures that your data isn't stolen, misused, phony, or otherwise lost? As the sophistication of AI and cybersecurity increases, so does the sophistication of individuals and entities who try to defeat or manipulate them. Are you able to validate the security and quality of your organization's information?
In some cases, if you don't know the answer, that "unknown" response choice is available to you. This is actually valuable feedback for the assessment.
Participants must 'opt in' in order for their anonymized responses to be included in a summary. Survey results, if/when shared with survey participants, are anonymized and are summarized only when there is a sufficient level of opt-in response to create enough range in the information to prevent potential attribution.