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2020 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

1. Understand Your Organization

Author : Martin Treder

Published in: The Chief Data Officer Management Handbook

Publisher: Apress

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Abstract

Everybody talks about “data.” When you ask a company executive about the importance of data, the typical response is violent agreement. In fact, an increasing number of organizations realize that data is gaining relevance every day.

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Footnotes
1
A good description can be found under Wikipedia – Boiling Frog, 2019.
 
2
I am using the term “business” across this book to describe entities benefiting from well-managed data. This is, of course, not really accurate as it suggests a clear distinction between data service providers and data service consumers. In fact, while IT is mostly a service provider in this context, it is also a consumer where data helps manage the IT “business.”
 
3
In modern forms of government, such a set of rules is called the “constitution.”
 
4
Luke 2, 1–3, Holy Bible, English Standard Version
 
5
A mature organization will require both roles. And even if the Head of Data Science reports into the CDO, the latter will not necessarily have a higher salary, following the rule of demand and supply.
 
6
Original German text: “Die Digital Natives können zwar alle Selfies auf Instagram posten, aber kaum einer weiß, was eine Kommandzeile ist – geschweige denn, wie man programmiert.“
 
7
You will probably have come across the 1-10-100 pyramid that is often used to illustrate this rule.
 
Metadata
Title
Understand Your Organization
Author
Martin Treder
Copyright Year
2020
Publisher
Apress
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-6115-6_1

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