CDO
CDOs need to get as close to the business as possible: It's "people, process, technology, in that order..."
BBC is "transitioning to a data product organisation, evolving our data architecture and embedding data capabilities company wide..."
"For years companies have been struggling to ensure that their data is systematically reliable" writes Peter Denyer. But...
The Stack speaks to Chief Digital Officer Mark Dearnley about building a global IT delivery function internally rather than buying it in through outsourcing.
"With the recent incubation of Apache Polaris, an open-source lakehouse catalog implementation for tracking Apache Iceberg tables, we are moving toward a world where..."
"If you get a good grip on that, happy customers, happy shareholders. If you get it wrong, you are sat on millions of pounds-worth of stock in a warehouse that you have to write off..."
Rules demand "a significant uplift in terms of new data sourcing... IT leadership will need to carefully manage cultural and technical integration between internal risk and compliance teams"
Role up your sleeves, gird your loins, dust off those "outstanding influencing, negotiating and conflict resolution skills"
Some data transformation failures are "inherent to what you're trying to do, which is discover insights; knowledge generation is not a deterministic process. But some of that is also because people don't know how to do it..." he tells The Stack.