ODI Fridays: Leveraging data to demonstrate impact

Increasingly, the better able you are to tell your performance story the better able you are to get the resources you need for your project. Francis Loughheed, Senior Policy Advisor at Canadian Forest Service, will present a methodology that brings data to results-based management to tell compelling performance stories. Based on 15 years experience working in performance measurement across the Government of Canada, this presentation will be of special interest for government and public sector agencies, with applicable lessons for the private sector. About the speaker Mr. Loughheed works with the seven programs of the CFS to support sector performance measurement reporting and the CFS Data Strategy. His work in data analytics includes: conception and development of an Executive Portfolio Dashboard, promoting the use of data visualization to inform policy and science decision-making and corporate reporting and, developing a methodology to estimate the economic value of data in the public sector. He is currently working on data pilots in the areas of cloud-based data lake systems, machine learning and augmented intelligence systems to contribute to data-driven impact and is leading a Departmental project on promoting data culture utilising the ODI data skills framework.