The Chief Data Officer's playbook

✍ Scribed by Caroline Carruthers; (Data officer) Peter Jackson

• Year: 2021
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 243
• Edition: Second
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Endorsements
Title page
Contents
List of figures
Preface
Acknowledgements
About the authors
Glossary of technicalterms
1 The accidental entrepreneur
2 A reflection on the first300 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
Introduction
The CDO’s role
The importance of communicating
The other ingredients
5 The first 100 days
Introduction
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
Introduction
Business as usual
Immediate data strategy
Target data strategy
7 Avoiding the hype cycle
Introduction
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
Introduction
Key relationships
9 The Chief Data Officer as a disruptor
Introduction
Disruption and innovation
How CDOs may innovate and disrupt
Data is the disruptor
10 Building the Chief Data Officer team
Introduction
The basics of the team
The different pillars
11 The next 300 days
Introduction
The next three steps
Tasks to be achieved
12 The different generations of Chief Data Officers
Introduction
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?
Introduction
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
Introduction
Questions to ask yourself
Preparing yourself for a CDO role
15 The Chief Data Officer and the technology
Introduction
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
Introduction
The hoarding mentality
Data hoarding patterns
Breaking the patterns
Understanding the value of what you have
17 Data and information ethics
Introduction
Opportunities and ethics
The dilemmas of data ethics
18 The Chief Data Officer and data governance
Introduction
Data governance and data protection
Enablement, not red tape
The purpose of data governance
The role of assurance
19 The data revolution
Introduction
Sustainable change
Resistance to change
Overcoming resistance
Communicating the vision
20 Advice to business owners, CEOs and the board
Introduction
Does the business need a CDO?
After the decision has been made
How to recruit a CDO
21 Conclusion
Index