Chief Analytics Officer

A Chief Analytics Officer is an organizational officer who is responsible for achieving optimal analytics organizational execution.

• Context:
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• Counter-Example(s):
  • Chief Data Officer.
  • Chief AI Officer.
  • Chief Information Officer.
  • Chief Growth Officer.
• See: Chief Executive Officer, Statistical Analysis, Marketing, Finance, Business Operations, Board of Directors, Mathematics.

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References

2021

• (Wikipedia, 2021) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chief_analytics_officer Retrieved:2021-9-3.
  • … Research indicates that First Generation CDOs are typically responsible for the following:
    • Assessing the state of the company's data which, more often than not, is in some state of disrepair
    • Developing a data warehouse that acts as a central repository for all of the company's data
    • Defining the data governance, management and ownership frameworks that will ensure data quality is created and maintained
    • Working with business to understand data requirements and then how to provide them with this data - whilst maintaining control (see point above)
    • Assisting in developing reporting tools through BI, visualisation tools, etc.
    • Ensuring compliance to data or sector-specific regulations - this is mostly true in the financial services sector where most companies employ a CDO to make sure that they're compliant to regulations
  • In addition to these key responsibilities, the First Generation CDO is concerned with communicating his/her value to the organisation, evangelising the importance of data and building business processes to ensure efficient workflows.

2017

• (Wikipedia, 2017) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/chief_analytics_officer Retrieved:2017-5-20.
  • Chief analytics officer (CAO) is a job title for the senior manager responsible for the analysis of data within an organization, such as a listed company or an educational institution. The CAO often reports to the chief executive officer.

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