In today's dynamic marketplace, it has become necessary for businesses to be able to use data to identify challenges and meet them. So, to establish a data-driven culture that empowers employees with skills to use data for accurate decision making is important. Ways in which this transformation can be done are by establishing a clear vision by imparting knowledge about the use of data, ensuring easy and secure access to data, keeping the data organized, clean and up-to-date, creating agile multi-disciplinary teams, i.e. forming teams which have at least one member who's well experienced in data analytics, and lastly by developing reward mechanisms by sharing data successes to inspire others. Thus, analyzing the data in the right way and cultivating a data-driven culture is necessary to make accurate decisions. Read more at: http://www.datasciencecentral.com/profiles/blogs/5-ways-businesses-can-cultivate-a-data-driven-culture