by CDO Review Staff | Sep 9, 2019 | CDO Insider
The US Navy is re-jiggering its IT org chart. It’ll start by elevating and hiring a new CIO, as well as more than a dozen other staffers, including a CDO, CISO and a chief digital officer, who will all report to the CDO. The team is expected to lead the Navy...
by CDO Review Staff | Sep 9, 2019 | CDO Insider
Entrenched company cultures continue to be among the biggest hurdles for CDOs attempting a data-driven transformation of their companies. Sara Brown explored the challenges facing CDOs in this article published by MIT-Sloan School: Chief data officers are often...
by CDO Review Staff | Sep 9, 2019 | CDO Insider
Data-related job titles are storming the C-suite; the number of CDOs at Fortune 100 firms has grown 500% since 2013, according to a new report. A recent study by Edtech firm AVADO titled ‘Transformation in the C-Suite’ reveals that the number of CDOs in leadership...
by CDO Review Staff | Sep 9, 2019 | CDO Insider
Swiss drug giant Novartis reportedly fired chief scientific officer Brian Kaspar and head of research Allan Kaspar in its affiliate AveXis over charges that they manipulated research data in connection with an FDA application for a gene therapy drug. An August press...
by CDO Review Staff | Sep 9, 2019 | CDO Insider
Online brand management firm Yext has chosen Christian J. Ward, a former chief data officer for SourceMedia and InfoGroup, as its new CDO. Ward has worked at Yext for the past five years as EVP of Data Partnerships. Here is an excerpt from a report published in...