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_3

3. The Data Supply Chain

Martin Treder¹ 

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Königswinter, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany

 

Figure 3-1

Covering Analytics alone is like playing darts blindfoldedly

Data doesn’t fall from the sky. It is captured or acquired, managed, stored, transformed, forwarded, and it finally gets used.

None of these steps should be looked at in isolation, as they strongly depend on each other. This is also why an organization’s Data Office should be responsible for the entire lifecycle of data. I call it the “Data Supply Chain.”

Let’s have a look at the ...