Data Executives
President Signs Open Government Data Act of 2018
How Leadership Shapes Culture, Talent, and the Truth Inside Organizations (IDEAL Webcast) Washington, D.C. – On January 14, 2019, President Trump signed into law the Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking (FEBP) Act (H.R. 4174, S. 2046), which includes the Open, Public, Electronic and Necessary (OPEN) Government Data Act (Title II). The OPEN Government Data Act requires all non-sensitive government data to…
Read MoreAligning Organizational Leadership
How Leadership Shapes Culture, Talent, and the Truth Inside Organizations (IDEAL Webcast) Abstract: Getting support for data initiatives is not easy. Being successful requires that CDOs understand the environment and the roles that operate within it. Most importantly, CDOs need to reach out and develop trusted relationships with key leaders. This article describes critical organizational…
Read MoreAgreeing on Uniform CDO Qualifications
How Leadership Shapes Culture, Talent, and the Truth Inside Organizations (IDEAL Webcast) Abstract: US federal agencies are now required to appoint a Chief Data Officers (CDO) for each organization. This is required in federal law; however, what constitutes a qualified CDO remains unclear. This paper offers explores the argument for organizations establish a formalized planning…
Read MoreEstablishing the Office of the Chief Data Officer (CDO)
How Leadership Shapes Culture, Talent, and the Truth Inside Organizations (IDEAL Webcast) Abstract: Establishing the CDO as a valuable organizational leader can sometimes seems like an impossible task, but it’s not. This paper offers some practical advice for organizations wanting to institutionalize the role of the CDO and standing up an office dedicated to making…
Read MoreThe Seven Deadly Data Sins
How Leadership Shapes Culture, Talent, and the Truth Inside Organizations (IDEAL Webcast) 19 min read Abstract: Organizations routinely try and solve all their problems technologically at the expense of the business. There are seven problems, known as the “Seven Deadly Data Sins”, that organizations encounter on their way towards getting the maximum return out of…
Read MoreWhat Is a Data Strategy?
How Leadership Shapes Culture, Talent, and the Truth Inside Organizations (IDEAL Webcast) 6 min read Abstract: What is strategy, and more importantly, what is data strategy? This article describes three important and related concepts in organizational planning: What is strategy? What is a data strategy? How do they work together? Introduction It is important that…
Read MoreWhy Does Your Organization Need a Data Strategy?
How Leadership Shapes Culture, Talent, and the Truth Inside Organizations (IDEAL Webcast) 7 min read Abstract: It has become cliché that data is growing faster than ever. However, organizations have still not developed the organizational culture, practices, and policies to take full advantage of the data assets that they already have. Organizations keep looking for…
Read MoreHow Data Scientists Turned Against Statistics
How Leadership Shapes Culture, Talent, and the Truth Inside Organizations (IDEAL Webcast) 5 min read Getty Images One of the most remarkable stories of the rise of “big data” is the way in which it has coincided with the decline of the denominator and our shift towards using algorithms and workflows into which we have no visibility. Our great leap into…
Read MoreReport to the Clerk of the Privy Council: A Data Strategy Roadmap for the Federal Public Service
How Leadership Shapes Culture, Talent, and the Truth Inside Organizations (IDEAL Webcast) Executive Summary The volume of data that governments, businesses and Canadians produce is growing exponentially, animated by digital technologies. Organizations are changing their business models, building new expertise and devising new ways of managing and unlocking the value of their data. Governments need…
Read MoreListen – Do You Want to Know a Secret?
How Leadership Shapes Culture, Talent, and the Truth Inside Organizations (IDEAL Webcast) by Andrew Rudin Do You Want to Know a Secret? When the Beatles released this song in 1963, the world was different. Less frantic, and more naïve. Listen/ Do you want to know a secret/Do you promise not to tell?, whoa oh, oh Let me…
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