Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- About the authors
- Glossary of Technical Terms
- 1 The Accidental Entrepreneur
- 2 A Reflection on the First 300 days
- 3 Why does any Organisation need a Chief Data Officer?
- 4 The Secret Ingredients of a Chief Data Officer
- 5 The First 100 Days
- 6 Delivering a Data Strategy in the Cauldron of BAU
- 7 Avoiding the Hype Cycle
- 8 Relating to the rest of the Business, Especially the C-Suite
- 9 The Chief Data Officer as a Disruptor
- 10 Building the Chief Data Officer Team
- 11 The next 300 Days
- 12 The Different Generations of Chief Data Officers
- 13 What type of Chief Data Officer are you?
- 14 How to Present Yourself as a Chief Data Officer
- 15 The Chief Data Officer and the Technology
- 16 The Hoarding Mentality and how to Break it
- 17 Data and Information Ethics
- 18 The Chief Data Officer and Data Governance
- 19 The Data Revolution
- 20 Advice to Business owners, CEOs and the Board
- 21 Conclusion
- Index
4 - The Secret Ingredients of a Chief Data Officer
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 February 2021
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- About the authors
- Glossary of Technical Terms
- 1 The Accidental Entrepreneur
- 2 A Reflection on the First 300 days
- 3 Why does any Organisation need a Chief Data Officer?
- 4 The Secret Ingredients of a Chief Data Officer
- 5 The First 100 Days
- 6 Delivering a Data Strategy in the Cauldron of BAU
- 7 Avoiding the Hype Cycle
- 8 Relating to the rest of the Business, Especially the C-Suite
- 9 The Chief Data Officer as a Disruptor
- 10 Building the Chief Data Officer Team
- 11 The next 300 Days
- 12 The Different Generations of Chief Data Officers
- 13 What type of Chief Data Officer are you?
- 14 How to Present Yourself as a Chief Data Officer
- 15 The Chief Data Officer and the Technology
- 16 The Hoarding Mentality and how to Break it
- 17 Data and Information Ethics
- 18 The Chief Data Officer and Data Governance
- 19 The Data Revolution
- 20 Advice to Business owners, CEOs and the Board
- 21 Conclusion
- Index
Summary
Introduction
This chapter is mostly aimed at the CDO, to help you understand and appreciate the skills and characteristics that are required to be a CDO. However, it is also a useful chapter for organisations thinking about recruiting a CDO – what sort of skills should they be looking for? To that extent, this chapter is also useful for recruiters when trying to assess potential candidates. The chapter emphasises the necessity for the CDO to have ‘narrative powers’ and lists the seven secret ingredients of the CDO. It introduces for the first time in the book the concept of ‘first-generation CDO’ and ‘second-generation CDO’. The firstgeneration CDOs are those taking up roles in organisations which haven't previously had a senior function responsible for data and a data strategy, whereas the second-generation CDO builds upon the firm foundation created by the first-generation CDO and generates more value for the organisation. In this second edition we also introduce the concept of the ‘first-generation CDO – replayed’.
The CDO's role
The role of the CDO is evolving fast. In one type of organisation compliance and regulation may lie behind the creation of the role, whereas in another the CDO is there as a response to business model disruption and the need to drive innovation.
(Emanuela Aureli, Spencer Stuart)Compared to most of the C-Suite colleagues, the CDO is faced with a set of unique problems. There are some similarities: the CDO is a subject specialist, and in that respect is similar to the Chief Finance Officer, Chief Investment Officer or Chief Risk Officer. The CDO also operates across the organisation and so has similarities with the Chief Operating Officer or Chief Accounting Officer. However, the CDO does have a unique set of challenges: primarily, the role is still being defined and, in the absence of certainty, there is an assumption that the role will solve all the problems the organisation is facing. The CDO in many organisations is a new role (the number of people in CDO roles doubled between 2013 to 2014, and probably doubled again in 2015 – Karl Greenberg, MediaPost 2015), while the other C-Suite executives have roles and responsibilities which the organisation recognises and understands.
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- The Chief Data Officer's Playbook , pp. 31 - 42Publisher: FacetPrint publication year: 2020