Creating a Data-Driven Organization: Practical Advice from the Trenches

The CDO may run the analytics org, supervising teams of analysts and/or data scientists.

I hinted earlier that risk mitigation can often restrict activity more than is legally required. Why is that?

the CDO’s role must be to support those endeavors by providing guidance, higher-level strategy, and coordination. The CDO should also measure and monitor the effectiveness of those projects, driving work to maximize analytical ROI and impact.

Analysis “Transforming data assets into competitive insights that will drive business decisions and actions using people, processes and technologies”2

To become data-driven, an organization has to leverage data as a strategic asset; and to achieve that, all parts of the organization needs some prodding, and they need some concrete examples of how data is, or could be, enriching and delivering impact.

I believe that data-driven organizations have to respect their users’ rights and sensibilities.

A data-driven culture is one that respects both the power of data and the humanity of the people who are the source of that data.

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Data is powerful, but also dangerous.

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