---
id: "worksheets:exercise/assess-readiness"
type: "Solving Public Problems worksheet"
title: "Assess your Readiness to Use Data"
url: "https://worksheets.solvingpublicproblems.org/exercise/assess-readiness"
date: "2024-07-11"
summary: "Please complete the questions below to determine your organizational readiness — or lack thereof — to find and analyze data."
source: "Solving Public Problems worksheets (worksheets.solvingpublicproblems.org), The GovLab and the Burnes Center for Social Change"
licence: "none stated"
---

# Assess your Readiness to Use Data

Exercise group: Defining Problems with Data · Recommended exercise

## About this worksheet

Please complete the questions below to determine your organizational readiness — or lack thereof — to find and analyze data.

## Tips

- Are there individuals or teams in other parts of your department you might tap?
- Are there individuals or teams in universities or companies you might turn to for help?
- Are there people you can train to be able to help you?
- Can you enlist the public’s help?

## Questions

1. Are the data fully open and/or accessible to you in a machine-readable form enabling you to readily use the information, or do you need additional resources?
2. Do factors such as staffing limit your organization’s ability to make use of data?
3. Is there a clear commitment to using the data to solve the problem as defined?
4. Are the right people available to act on insights generated through the data? If not, can you identify external or internal partners with the relevant expertise to help you clean and prepare the data for use?
5. Can you use novel approaches such as data labs, data collaboratives, open innovation challenges, or competitions to enhance your organization’s readiness to use and analyze data?

## Source

Solving Public Problems, Chapter 6, p. 171 (adapted from The GovLab)

## PDF version

https://directus.theburnescenter.org/assets/7839ece8-a056-4e03-b16f-cf21038be8ed

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