The COVID-19 pandemic catalyzed enterprises to move at breakneck speeds with investments in technology, reskilling and hiring talent with chief information officers (CIOs) and IT leaders at the helm. Over the last couple of years, IT leaders have been focused on exploring modern solutions to modern problems (remote enablement and endpoint security technologies to name a […]
CDOs Harness Flood of External Data for Smarter Decision-Making
The first chief data officer (CDO) was appointed at Capital One in 2002. Although just 12% of Fortune 500 companies had a CDO a decade later, more than two-thirds of major companies employ CDOs now. Companies generate unfathomable amounts of information – one credible estimate compares the daily data output to 166,000 times the data contained in the Library of Congress. […]
How to Start Using AI at Your Company
So you want to start using AI at your company. Now what? First, evaluate if it has an appropriate place in your company. Many organizations hire a data scientist or an entire AI team with an anticipation of a fast, massive, magical gain. Even though by now most people realize that these expectations are naive, […]
5 Ways Data Can Help Save the Planet
A sustainable and equitable world is the holy grail – a world in which planet comes before profit; where equality, diversity, and inclusion are a prerequisite; and where ethics are baked into every aspect of our society and business. While this may seem like decades away from becoming a reality, there is hope. If the UN […]
Five Ways Decision Intelligence Helps Accelerate Data-Driven Decision-Making
With 2022 well underway, many businesses are deploying new data-driven strategies and models to promote growth, accelerate digital transformation, and increase operational efficiency. However, to maximize success, enterprise leaders must incorporate decision intelligence and data-driven insights into their decision-making processes. Decision intelligence is an approach that can help ease the burden of data analysis and […]
Guide to Building a Data Strategy Framework
Your data strategy is only as good as the framework supporting it. If you don’t have a framework in the first place, you won’t have a strategy. This isn’t something that is necessarily complicated to plan out, but it can be confusing to know what exactly constitutes a good data foundation. With that in mind, below […]
Dear Laura: What Role Should Leadership Play in Data Governance?
Welcome to the Dear Laura blog series! As I’ve been working to challenge the status quo on Data Governance – I get a lot of questions about how it will “really” work. I’ll be sharing these questions and answers via this DATAVERSITY® series. In 2019, I wrote the book “Disrupting Data Governance” because I firmly believe that […]
What the Hybrid, Multi-Cloud Resurgence Means for the Cloud Landscape
As a result of the global pandemic, flexibility has become critically important to enterprises – and far more common in business operations than ever before. The vast majority of companies have instituted flexible working policies to retain and attract employees; behind the scenes, they have also increasingly adopted cloud services to enable agility during uncertain […]
Good Data Governance Must Go Hand in Hand with Digital Transformation
Good Data Governance is often the difference between an organization’s success and failure. And from a digital transformation standpoint, many view technologies like AI, robotics, and big data as being critical for helping companies and their boards to respond to events quicker than ever. However, the fact is that a digital approach completely changes and […]
The Rise of Chief Data Officers and the Fall of Database Administrators
As we kick off the new year, it’s important to consider the unique challenges facing enterprises when it comes to managing databases. We’ve seen data and databases grow exponentially with each passing year. This added growth also brings added complexity, resulting in increased difficulty for database professionals to monitor application performance and mitigate issues as […]