Two questions align when it comes to the Chief Data Officer (CDO): How do you know your business is ready to have one? And if it is, how do you quickly get a CDO shop in shape? Thomas Redman, The Data Doc who helps companies improve Data Quality, took up the first question during the […]
A Chief Data Officer Challenge: Build Your Data Strategy
The Chief Data Officer landscape presents a verdant picture in many ways. Gartner, for example, has estimated that one-quarter of large global organizations had already hired a Chief Data Officer (CDO), and that by 2019 that figure will rise to 90 percent. Noting that the Office of the CDO is responsible for Data Analytics initiatives […]
Alation’s Enterprise Data Catalog Values Data Assets for the Chief Data Officer
by Angela Guess A new press release reports, “Alation Inc., the collaborative data company, today announced increased support for Chief Data Officers looking to manage their data as an asset. Alation 5.0 will include new features and a services package to make data asset valuation simple by promoting the adoption of Infonomics. The Alation Data […]
A Month in the Life of a Chief Data Officer
What does a Chief Data Officer’s (CDO) regular routine look like? DATAVERSITY® wanted to learn more about the activities that define a CDO’s typical working day, and Ursula Cottone, CDO and Head of Enterprise Data and Process Services for Citizens Bank, was kind enough to share where her role regularly leads her today, as she […]
Boost Data Management to Stop Data Anarchy
Data anarchy has serious consequences, with the financial crisis of a decade ago being one of them. There was a “break in the data supply chain,” according to John Bottega, Principal and Managing Member of Data Management Advisory Services and senior advisor and consultant at the Enterprise Data Management Council. Important mortgage-related data, such as […]
Graphic Art Depictions of Data Strategy at Enterprise Data World
At the DATAVERSITY® Enterprise Data World (EDW) and CDO Vision 2017 Conferences on April 2-7 in Atlanta, GA, we invited Hannah Sanford for a second year to visually illustrate the key presentations throughout the event with her Graphic Art depictions. Her renditions of the information presented are visually appealing with impressive portrayals of the flow […]
Risks and Reward in Data Governance
Click to learn more about author Ian Rowlands. I was in some absorbing conversations at the FIMA Conference in Boston last week. There was much concern about the cost of Data Management for compliance. There’s an alphabet soup of regulations – AIFMD, BCSB239, CCAR, CCEL, Dodd-Frank, … MIFID II, … Solvency II … Some have unique […]
Managing Data as a Corporate Asset: Data Virtualization
Click to learn more about authors Andrew Sohn and Avi Kalderon. There’s a lot of talk in the data community that data needs to be managed as a corporate asset and treated like other assets in a corporation’s portfolio. Assets a corporation typically manages include product parts, real-estate, human capital, furniture, computer equipment, and finished […]
Enterprise Data World 2017: Data-Driven Business Transformation
“I love the power of data to tell stories and make better decisions,” said Micheline Casey, Principal at CDO, LLC. She spoke during the “Secrets of the CDOs” closing keynote panel of the 21st annual Enterprise Data World 2017 Conference (EDW) in Atlanta, Georgia, co-produced by DATAVERSITY® and DAMA International, which took place from April […]
The Expanding Role of the Chief Data Officer
by Angela Guess A recent press release states, “The chief data officer is one of the newest arrivals in the C-suite. The title didn’t even exist until Visa coined it in 2001. But with the increasing importance of data analytics to all businesses, more companies are bringing CDOs on board – there are now about […]