Data Literacy - More Important Than Ever for Effective AI Adoption

For organizations exploring AI, poor data quality is often where progress stalls.  After piloting AI solutions, many companies are uncovering one common truth that prevents AI adoption: fragmented, inconsistent, or low-quality data.  This comes despite years of investing in data infrastructure, riding the wave of “Big Data” as the next strategic advantage. While enterprise analytics capabilities may exist on paper, the reality is that AI success depends on consistent, clean, and unified data.  Many organizations have a data governance and architecture problem where legacy systems hold data in incompatible formats, critical records are incomplete, integrating diverse datasets creates delays and cost overruns and the time needed to clean the data often drains enthusiasm long before business value is realized.  Some companies have overcome their data challenges by:

1. Starting small, starting clean. They target areas where structured, reliable data already exists—like accounting or finance—where data management is mature and often regulated.

2. Building data discipline early. Strong data governance ensures long-term model reliability and prevents AI drift—where algorithms begin to deviate from expected outputs.

AI Literacy is key to overcoming these barriers to AI Adoption. AI fluency and data literacy unlock the value of your company's analytics capabilities to ensure that the AI tools are using your best data, leading to creating the greatest amount of value for your organization.  Enterprise AI requires a workforce that understands how data fuels AI, and leaders who can align data strategy with business priorities. AI literacy is a strategic enabler, helping teams unlock value from existing data and drive smarter, faster decisions.

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This is why the Government of Alberta, with support from the Federal Government, has selected Untapped Energy as the lead nonprofit organization to design and deliver an AI Literacy Program aimed directly for employers. A series of online and in-person sessions provide the necessary tools to help your organization:

• Build AI Fundamentals and Data Fluency

• Achieve Critical Thinking and Fact Checking skills

• To implement AI responsibly and ethically

• Effectively plan for the future of your organization's workforce & required AI competencies 

All participants will be provided with a Strategic AI Adoption roadmap and complete an AI Organizational Skills maturity assessment, a key foundation for your organization to prepare for its future workforce and talent strategy.

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Effective AI adoption and implementation is not an isolated effort.  Being able to rely on trusted ecosystem partners is the key to a successful AI adoption in your organization.  Untapped Energy is pleased to showcase Spare Parts & Gasoline as a trusted ecosystem partner you can count on for your AI adoption.

As a boutique transformation consulting firm specializing in helping companies get more value out of their digital investments, Spare Parts & Gasoline can help your organization better understand your portfolio of AI projects, set your AI ambition and assess your business’s readiness for AI adoption. The team will walk alongside yours to make sure you’re focusing on the highest-value AI initiatives across your value chain from strategy through to implementation, creating lasting change for your organization. 

Register today at early bird pricing: $499 (prices go up to $599 on August 15).  Or, connect with Julie Baron, MBA, ABC (jfb@sparepartsandgasoline.com) to learn more about how they are helping others with their AI implementation.  They have a discount code that will give you 25% off access to this AI Literacy Program.