by CDO Review Staff | Mar 27, 2019 | CDO Insider
CDOs who promised their Boards more cost-effective spending upon transitioning their data to the cloud ought to look into Site 24×7’s CloudSpend which promises to reduce overspending on cloud services by 70% or more. Ceecee Wong tells us more about the advantages...
by CDO Review Staff | Mar 25, 2019 | CDO Insider, Chief Data Officer
Valerie Logan, a Research Director at Gartner, says that CDOs could become more effective at their jobs if they try helping others achieve their data goals instead of trying to control everything in sight. Michael Baxter filed this report in Information Age: …Valerie...
by CDO Review Staff | Mar 25, 2019 | CDO Insider, Chief Data Officer
Hawaii has long embraced the data revolution. It already has an open data portal and a campaign to increase data sharing among the various state agencies. But Hawaii does not yet have an official CDO, which has hampered the enforcement of efficient data sharing. This...
by CDO Review Staff | Mar 25, 2019 | CDO Insider, Chief Data Officer
A bill introduced into the Texas state legislature in February seeks to make the currently temporary position of statewide data coordinator permanent. The bill also wants to rename the data coordinator position as chief data officer (CDO). Colin Wood tells us more...
by CDO Review Staff | Mar 25, 2019 | CDO Insider, Chief Data Officer
The US Department of Labor will soon install a “non-political” Chief Data Officer and a Data Board that will direct the agency’s data-strategy decisions. Tajha Chappellet-Lanier filed this report published in fedscoop: The creation of the chief data officer position...
by CDO Review Staff | Mar 25, 2019 | CDO Insider, Chief Data Officer
Michael Conlin, the Department of Defense’s Chief Data Officer (CDO), wants to steer the department towards evidence-based decision making but he recognizes that weaning people away from making decisions via gut feel will have to rely on winning small victories day...
by CDO Review Staff | Mar 25, 2019 | CDO Insider, Chief Data Officer
In order to get more out of their existing data infrastructure, Deloitte CEO Cathy Englebert advised state governors to expand their CDOs’ authority over data collection and analysis efforts. Darwin McDaniel wrote this post in Executive Biz: The report noted emerging...
by CDO Review Staff | Mar 25, 2019 | CDO Insider, Chief Data Officer
An effective CDO needs to have multiple skillsets to fulfill the demands of the job. At the minimum, the CDO should be tech savvy, customer-driven, security conscious, visionary, and a change-manager, according to Richard Y. Wang, executive managing director of the...
by CDO Review Staff | Mar 25, 2019 | CDO Insider, Chief Data Officer
If your data cannot be trusted, it is useless at best and downright harmful at worst. Senior Manager Karyn Thomas of BDO Australia emphasizes the need to have proof of the trustworthiness of the data that is being relied upon. ‘Gut Feel’ and ‘Blind Faith’ should be...
by CDO Review Staff | Mar 25, 2019 | CDO Insider, Chief Data Officer
Gary Goldberg, chief data officer for Mizuho Securities EMEA, says that the CDO’s job is to answer business challenges around data, a leader to provide clarity and designate direction. “The role of the CDO is to try to navigate those conversations, gain consensus, and...
