The executive responsible for developing and executing a strategy to help an organization become data-driven while creating a culture of analytics. They align data and analytics policies and activities across lines of business and IT.
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The modern CDO, sometimes called a chief analytics officer or chief data and analytics officer, addresses a lot more than compliance. This individual owns the creation of value from data across the organization and building a central data strategy to help shape business strategy. The CDO also seeks to create a data driven culture and increase data literacy. While reporting structures vary by organization, CDO’s often have hard-line or dotted-line responsibility for BI, Analytics, Data Quality, Data Governance, MDM & Compliance activities.(Transcribed)
- Kevin Petrie in Joe Dossantos: The Role of Chief Data Officer
March 25, 2020 (Podcast)
CDOs play a critical role in transforming their organizations, whether business executives recognize it or not. CDOs need to accelerate their organizations’ evolution through the stages of intelligence and develop world-class people, processes, programs, and platforms (P4) to deliver value (V) with data (D). But this is a tall order; it’s hard to know where to start. This article provides a simple framework to help CDOs identify their key points of leverage to help their organizations cross the data divide before it’s too late.
- Wayne Eckerson in From Data Laggard to Data Leader: Four Ways Chief Data Officers Can Transform an Organization
August 6, 2020 (Blog)
Today, the Chief Data Officer has become an established figure for a majority of corporations, as firms come to recognize the central importance of developing and managing to a data strategy, defining and implementing a data governance process, and ensuring regulatory compliance. There is a building consensus and recognition that data is a vital corporate asset and that management of this asset requires an executive leadership function and mandate. What remains less clear is how the role and responsibilities of the Chief Data Officer will evolve to meet the demands of large, complex organizations as we move deeper into the Era of Information.
- Randy Bean in Big Data and The Emergence of The Chief Data Officer
August 10, 2016 (Blog)
Relevant Content
Aug 14, 2017 - MIT’s Symposium for Chief Data Officers is a great resource for building that foundation of knowledge for the CDO.
Jun 15, 2015 - For some firms, the chief data officer has been seen as a quick fix, a silver bullet – as if, by virtue of establishing the position and filling the...
Aug 12, 2021 - The annual MIT CDOIQ Symposium addressed several new themes, including AI ethics, data sharing, and federated architectures, while offering chief data...
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