FOI Request - Data Analytics Innovation

Request 101003522754

1. Please provide your organisation's official legal name.
2. What was your organisation's total budget for the latest financial year? Please provide an estimate if uncertain.
3. What was your full-time equivalent (FTE) for all staff for the latest financial year? Please provide an estimate if uncertain.
4. What was your full-time equvalent (FTE) for staff specifically relating to data analytics roles in your organisation for the latest financial year? Note: Example roles would include, but are not limited to: Data Analyst, Business Analyst, Data Scientist, Data Engineer, Business Intelligence Analyst, Data Manager. Please provide an estimate if uncertain.
5. Which of the following types of data analytics are use in your organisation? Please select all that apply from those listed below. If other please specify.
- Decriptive analytics (foundational, simplest form of analytics, extracting trends from raw data to describe past or current events, answering the question: "What happened?")
- Diagnostic analytics (involves scrutinising concurrent trends, detecting correlations among variables and establishing causal relationships, answering the question: "What caused this to happen?"
- Predictive analytics (used to make predictions about future trends or events, answering the question: "What might happen in the future?")
- Prescriptive analytics (advises on the course of action, answering the question: "What steps should we take next?"
- other
6. Does your organisation have a dedicated strategy that incorporates data analytics or provides guidance on the effective use of data across your organisation? If 'Data analytics' is incorporated within a separate strategy (please state this document's name) please specify
7. What specific challenges or opportunities do you anticipate or have experienced in implementing data analytics? Please select all that apply from options below.
- Data Privacy and Security
- Limited Resources
- Legacy Systems and Siloed Data
- Bureaucratic Processes
- Talent Acquisition and Retention
- Ethical and Bias Concerns
- Interoperability and Data Sharing
- Other
8. How frequently do you rely on data-driven insights to make strategic decisions within your organisation?
9. What key performance indicators (KPIs) does your organisation use to measure the success of its technological innovation initiative?
- Revenue Growth
- Cost Reduction
- Customer Satisfaction
- Employee Engagement
- Sustainability Metrics
- Risk Management
- Non applicable
- Other
10. Based on documented procedures and practices, please indicate the extent to which data analytics initiatives are integrated into your organisation's strategic planning and decision-making processes:
11. How many successful data analytics-driven innovative projects has your organisation implemented or continued to deliver in the past year?

12. Please list the titles of the data-analytics-driven innovative projects:

Response 04-04-2024

1. Moray Council

2. £260.840M

3. 3705

4. Zero

5. Descriptive analytics (foundational, simplest form of analytics, extracting trends from raw data to describe past or current events, answering the question: "What happened?")

6. No

7. Data Privacy and Security
- Limited Resources
- Legacy Systems and Siloed Data

- Interoperability and Data Sharing

8. N/A

9. N/A

10. Not documented or practiced - not held. Information that is not held falls under Section 17 of the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 - Information not held.

11. None

12. N/A