The Chief Data Officer Management Handbook: Set Up and Run an Organization’s Data Supply Chain

© Martin Treder 2020

M. TrederThe Chief Data Officer Management Handbookhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-6115-6_1

1. Understand Your Organization

Martin Treder¹ 

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Königswinter, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany

 

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The intelligent enterprise

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 more relevance every day.

Yes, they have been successful for years if not decades without dedicated data management. But it doesn’t require a data expert to see how the evolution of tech has made data ...