The chief data officer's playbook / Caroline Carruthers and Peter Jackson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Carruthers, Caroline, author.

Jackson, Peter (Data officer), author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Data protection.

Knowledge management.

Intellectual capital.

Information technology--Management.

Information technology.

Technological innovations--Management.

Technological innovations.

Industrial management.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxvii, 213 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

London : Facet, 2021.

Summary:

This fully revised and updated edition of the bestselling Chief Data Officer's Playbook offers new insights into the role of the CDO and the data environment. Written by two of the world's leading experts in data driven transformation, it addresses the changes that have taken place in 'data', in the role of the 'CDO', and the expectations and ambitions of organisations. Most importantly, it will place the role of the CDO into the context of a c-suite player for organisations that wish to recover quickly and with long-term stability from the current global economic downturn.New coverage includes:the evolution of the CDO role, what those changes mean for organisations and individuals, and what the future might holda focus on ethics, the data revolution and all the areas that help readers take their first steps on the data journeynew conversations and experiences from an alumni of data leaders compiled over the past three yearsnew chapters and reflections on being a third generation CDO and on working across a broad spectrum of organisations who are all on different parts of their data journey.Written in a highly accessible and practical manner, The Chief Data Officer's Playbook, Second Edition brings the most up-to-date guidance to CDO's who wish to understand their position better; to those aspiring to become CDO's; to those who might be recruiting a CDO and to recruiters to understand an organisation seeking a CDO and the CDO landscape.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

List of figures

Preface

The past two years

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?

Introduction

Why organisations need a CDO

Why do CDOs fail?

When you have your lovely new CDO, what do you do with them?

What do you measure them against?

4 The secret ingredients of a Chief Data Officer

The CDO's role

The importance of communicating

The other ingredients

5 The first 100 days

Starting out in your new role

Pre-work

The case for change

Vision and strategy

What are your 'data basics'?

Quick wins

6 Delivering a data strategy in the cauldron of BAU

Business as usual

Immediate data strategy

Target data strategy

7 Avoiding the hype cycle

The Trough of Disillusionment

Data to wisdom

The rest of the hype cycle

8 Relating to the rest of the business, especially the C-Suite

Key relationships

9 The Chief Data Officer as a disruptor

Disruption and innovation

How CDOs may innovate and disrupt

Data is the disruptor

10 Building the Chief Data Officer team

The basics of the team

The different pillars

11 The next 300 days

The next three steps

Tasks to be achieved

12 The different generations of Chief Data Officers

An evolving role

First-generation versus second-generation CDOs

First-generation CDOs

Second-generation CDOs

Third-generation CDOs

13 What type of Chief Data Officer are you?

What sort of CDO?

Patterns of CDOs' backgrounds.

The importance of understanding your CDO type

14 How to present yourself as a Chief Data Officer

Questions to ask yourself

Preparing yourself for a CDO role

15 The Chief Data Officer and the technology

Understand the context

The history of the social revolution

Who leads the technology?

Data versus information

16 The hoarding mentality and how to break it

The hoarding mentality

Data hoarding patterns

Breaking the patterns

Understanding the value of what you have

17 Data and information ethics

Opportunities and ethics

The dilemmas of data ethics

18 The Chief Data Officer and data governance

Data governance and data protection

Enablement, not red tape

The purpose of data governance

The role of assurance

19 The data revolution

Sustainable change

Resistance to change

Overcoming resistance

Communicating the vision

20 Advice to business owners, CEOs and the board

Does the business need a CDO?

After the decision has been made

How to recruit a CDO

21 Conclusion

Index.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 04 Mar 2021).

ISBN:

1-78330-475-8

OCLC:

1246494623