Pervasive, data is a unique organizational resource, and this distinction warrants its own strategy. Data, representing your single non-depletable, non-degradable, durable strategic asset, is likely also your most poorly leveraged and underutilized organizational asset. Lack of talent, barriers in organizational thinking, and seven specific data sins prevent most organizations from benefiting fully from their data asset investments. Solving these prerequisites will allow your organization to:
<ul>
<li>Improve your organization's data; </li>
<li>Improve the way your people use data; and </li>
<li>Improve the way your people use data to achieve your organizational strategy. </li>
</ul> This method better focuses data and thinking in direct support of strategic objectives. After eliminating necessary prerequisites, organizations can develop a disciplined and repeatable means of improving their data, literacy, standards, and controls using data governance practices. Once in place, the process (based on the theory of constraints) becomes a variant of lather, rinse, and repeat. Several complementary concepts covered include:<ul>
<li>An overview of data strategy prerequisites; </li>
<li>A repeatable process for identifying and removing data constraints; </li>
<li>Why data strategy is necessary for effective data governance; </li>
<li>Balancing operational results with capability development; </li>
<li>An objective definition of data-centric thinking; and </li>
<li>Ways to monetize these efforts. </li>
</ul>

Data Strategy and the Enterprise Data Executive: Ensuring that Business and IT are in Synch in the Post-Big Data Era

Business & Money

Aiken, Peter

Harbour, Todd

Management & Leadership

Technics Publications

Let the masters guide you on your Chief Data Officer (CDO) journey! The CDO is a new business role, and just starting to appear in state, local, and federal governments. Like many new roles, the CDOs responsibilities are continuously evolving and changing. Most institutions are not consistent with assigning CDO responsibilities, and this lack of standardization is of great concern. Also, some say public and private sector CDOs are dramatically different. We dont believe that. We think CDOs are more similar than dissimilar. More importantly, though, we think private and public CDOs can learn from each other. Weve created this book to help all CDOs, public and private. This book is about ideas and recommendations which have broad applicationon the shop floor, in a conference room, or even in legislative chambers. Apply our advice to smooth your ride during the CDO journey. Use our ideas and suggestions in ways that work for you, because every organization and data journey is different. These ideas are here to help you avoid some of our frustrations. We hope this can reach executives, managers, legislators, and others leading organizations to help bridge explanations of new vocabulary, ideas, and processes. Ultimately, we think this book will help you create data-centric value for your organization.

The CDO Journey: Insights and Advice for Data Leaders

Walteraiken, Kathy

Kelly, Ed

Walsh, Burt

Do you know what a "PIDD" is? A PIDD is a Perpetual Involuntary Data Doner. Surveillance capitalists love PIDDs because PIDDs materially support the data extraction industry by unwittingly surrendering their personal information, paying for data transport and storage, and tolerating poor Internet/technology performance. Today, this quiet industry collects massive data about people to modify and control their societal behavior. Surveillance capitalists control behavior by exploiting people's low data literacy. Three things increase the magnitude of the challenge: Data volume continues faster than we can process; Poor data interchange costs drain citizen and organizational resources and productivity; Society's reliance on technologies has not materially addressed the gap. Our Digital Civics Framework (DCF) presents a guide to increasing the data literacy of billions of citizens or at least those connected to the internet. We outline the levels and types of data knowledge that society needs and propose exercises that will help citizens interact productively within a data-driven society. Unfortunately, far too many PIDDs allow surveillance capitalists to monitor their data. This type of monitoring comes at an expense to individuals, our communities, and society writ large. Completing this material will equip readers with a shared understanding of society and the role data plays in it.

Data Literacy: Achieving Higher Productivity for Citizens, Knowledge Workers, and Organizations

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