Why It Matters: Data and AI Literacy Is Now a Business-Critical Skill
One thing has become increasingly clear to me: the businesses that thrive in the AI era won't be the ones with the most data, they'll be the ones where every employee knows how to use it. The World Economic Forum's 2025 Future of Jobs Report names analytical thinking as the top core skill companies need today, and a 2024 Gartner survey found poor data literacy to be one of the top five obstacles to analytics success.