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CDOs Taking a Strategic Seat at the Executive Table: Report

The importance of the Chief Data Officer is increasing, according to a new report from the EDM Council. The trade association’s 2023 Global Data Management Benchmark Report explores the growth of data management as a f Read more…

AWS Report Explores the Priorities of Today’s CDO

AWS has released a collaborative research report on the role of the contemporary Chief Data Officer that reflects on how the position and its priorities have evolved. “CDO Agenda 2023: Prioritizing Business Value Creat Read more…

Data Mesh: What’s In It For The Business?

Chief Data Officers view their company’s business strategy through a data-tinted lens. As a CDO, I was focused on delivering data-driven business outcomes (value) through a sustainable data foundation (culture and gove Read more…

Still Wanted: (Much) Better COVID Data

It wasn’t supposed to happen this way. With three effective COVID vaccines, we were supposed to be on the tail-end of the pandemic by now. But that hasn’t happened. Infection rates are increasing quickly as the Delta Read more…

How to Set Yourself Up for Success as a Chief Data Officer in 2021

Many Chief Data Officers (CDOs) have a noticeably short tenure. The role of CDO is full of challenges as they often drive cultural and technical change. Unlike many C-level roles that have been around for a while, CDO is Read more…

CDOs Must Shift to Offense, Survey Finds

The financial services sector faces among the toughest data compliance and risk management challenges, some of which are being addressed by AI-based analytical cloud services. But a vendor-sponsored survey of chief data Read more…

CDO Stature Rises, But Data Strategies Fall Short

The role of chief data officers (CDO) is expanding as companies look to unlock value in their vast stores of customer and other data, Still, many CDOs still face a misalignment between goals and priorities, a new vendor Read more…

The Sunny Side of Privacy Laws and Compliance Mandates

Enterprises are faced with a growing onslaught of data and increasing data privacy regulations. Those regulations include the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which regulators began enforcing in May 2018. Th Read more…

The First Step to Success for the Chief Data Officer: Changing Your Outlook on Business Value

The modern enterprise no longer needs to worry about obtaining the necessary data to understand their customer’s habits and needs. The issue that companies grapple with today is rooted in the required scale and agility Read more…

The Evolving Role of the CDO

Who drives the big data and AI strategy at your company? Surveys show that many of the biggest and most analytically advanced companies are increasingly turning to chief data officers (CDOs) for leadership and guidance o Read more…

CDO 4.0 Arrives with Product Focus: Gartner

Harnessing data and analytics within the construct of impactful products will be the focus of the latest incarnation of the chief data officer, CDO 4.0, the Gartner Research Board announced today. We are on the cusp o Read more…

Five Things to Consider as Strata Kicks Off

Today marks the start of the fall Strata Data Conference in New York City, which has traditionally been the big data community's biggest show of the year. It's been a wild ride for the big data crowd in 2018, one that's Read more…

AI, Big Data Are Meshing–and Disrupting

Data analytics, big data and artificial intelligence are widely seen by banks, manufacturers and technology firms are part of a “continuum” as they begin to derive value while girding for growing competition from dat Read more…

Five Tips for Winning at Data Governance

By now, you've hopefully realized that having a great data analytics strategy also requires having a good data governance strategy. After all, if your data is ungovernable, then the analytics you're running atop it will Read more…

The Emerging Role of the Chief Data Officer

Across all industries, enterprises have access to more data than ever before as insights pour in from machines throughout the company, customer queries, and archived information. These exponentially growing volumes of in Read more…

Important Steps CDOs Should Take to Show Their Value

As organizations have increasingly recognized the importance of information technology as well as data integration, master data management, and data preparation to the fundamental functioning of every day business, the r Read more…

One on One with the CDO of the Year

What does it mean to be a chief data officer in 2017? We asked Dr. Inderpal Bhandari, who was just named the United States CDO of the Year last week by the CDO Club, for insight into the job. Dr. Bhandari, who is the Read more…

Seven Powerful Analytic Lessons from the CAO Summit

What's the best way to assemble an analytic team? How important is support from the C-suite?   Why is culture so important to becoming a data-driven organization, and what career path will lead me to becoming a chief a Read more…

CAO or CDO? Analytic Institute Examines Differences

One of the most important challenges a company faces as it embark on a big data journey is hiring the right people for the right roles. But quite often, companies are faced a dilemma: Should they hire a chief data office Read more…

Five Ways CDOs Turn Data into Dollars

The number of people in the C-suite has grown, often including the addition of the Chief Data Officer. If an organization doesn’t have one yet, it likely will soon. By one estimate, roughly 25 percent of all global cor Read more…

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