Carruthers and Jackson, one of the leading global data consultancies and part of the Praesto Group, has today released their latest Data Maturity Index.
The 2025/26 Data Maturity Index found that most organisations exist in something of a mid‑maturity data plateau, characterised by pockets of progress alongside worrying areas of stagnation.
The annual poll of over a hundred global data leaders highlighted the proliferation of AI tools. 40% said that AI is now being used by a high number of employees, either across their whole organisation or in certain departments (up from 21% in 2024). For the first time, no respondents said that AI is not being used at all.
However, despite this increase in AI use and dependency, there is no progress being made in bridging the gap on data literacy. 58% of data leaders reported that most of their employees are not data literate, and a further 3% said almost no employees are data literate in their...