Chief Data Officer
The Chief Data Officer (CDO) is the term in English-speaking countries for a person who is responsible for the company's data management. In contrast to the CIO (Chief Information Officer), the CDO is less concerned with the technical issues of data processing, but rather with data as an asset, the creation and use of which must be managed in the interests of the company. Accordingly, the CDO is responsible for the systematic administration (management) of the creation, use and quality assurance of the data. In addition, there are data security and occasionally data protection tasks.
In the activity, which is very much influenced by the Anglo-Saxon region, terms such as data governance (control of data use), data architecture (conception and planning of data sources and data consumers) and data quality (ensuring the content quality of the Data). In this sense, the CDO fulfills a preliminary stage to a successful data analysis, since all forms of data analysis and their further developments such as machine learning and artificial intelligence are dependent on high-quality data. The CDO usually reports to the Chief Executive Officer or Chief Operating Officer , less often to the Chief Technology Officer .
With the increase in information technology within companies, business intelligence , information integration and data processing also became increasingly important.
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Individual evidence
- ^ Understanding the Chief Data Officer Role. Retrieved August 27, 2018 (American English).