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.
Carl Anderson • Creating a Data-Driven Organization: Practical Advice from the Trenches
Analysis “Transforming data assets into competitive insights that will drive business decisions and actions using people, processes and technologies”2
Carl Anderson • Creating a Data-Driven Organization: Practical Advice from the Trenches
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.
Carl Anderson • Creating a Data-Driven Organization: Practical Advice from the Trenches
of metrics, and contributes to a reliable, central source of truth.
Carl Anderson • Creating a Data-Driven Organization: Practical Advice from the Trenches
Data is powerful, but also dangerous.
Carl Anderson • Creating a Data-Driven Organization: Practical Advice from the Trenches
The more copies of data, the greater the risk. The more human readable the files, the greater the risk. The more shuffling around and integration of different data sources — which is more likely to be true of a data-driven organization that fosters data-sharing — the greater the risk.
Carl Anderson • Creating a Data-Driven Organization: Practical Advice from the Trenches
A key component of the role is identifying and exploiting new business opportunities. That is both an opportunity to generate new sources of revenue and take the business in new directions.
Carl Anderson • Creating a Data-Driven Organization: Practical Advice from the Trenches
It is for these reasons that many organizations choose to anonymize the information that is exposed in data warehouses and business intelligence tools for reporting and analysis.
Carl Anderson • Creating a Data-Driven Organization: Practical Advice from the Trenches
personally identifiable information