·Companies rated their performance across seven core data capabilities that collectively cover more than 40 competencies
·We weighted the competencies and created an index from 100 to 500 to place companies at a data maturity stage: lagging (100), developing (200), mainstream
(300), state of the art (400), or best practice (500)
·Critically, the survey asked companies about their current performance and their aspiration for three years in the future