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6 strategic imperatives for your next data strategy

CIO Business Intelligence

According to the MIT Technology Review Insights Survey, an enterprise data strategy supports vital business objectives including expanding sales, improving operational efficiency, and reducing time to market. The problem is today, just 13% of organizations excel at delivering on their data strategy.

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Eating the Elephant of Data Strategy

Paul Blogs on BI

I have a had a lot of conversations about data strategy this year. With both the rise in organizations looking to move their data to the cloud and the increasing awareness of the power of BI and generative AI, data strategy has become a top priority. This is where the infamous “How do you eat an elephant?”

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5 recommendations to get your data strategy right

IBM Big Data Hub

The rise of data strategy. There’s a renewed interest in reflecting on what can and should be done with data, how to accomplish those goals and how to check for data strategy alignment with business objectives. The evolution of a multi-everything landscape, and what that means for data strategy.

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Building a Data Strategy for Defence Partners

Alation

This was confirmed by the UK Ministry of Defence last September when it published its Data Strategy for Defence , which for the first time provided a clear vision and guidance for defence sector companies for gathering, collating and harnessing data. What is a data strategy? Why is a data strategy important?

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Think Your Company Doesn’t Need a Chief Data Officer? Here Are 7 Reasons Why It Does

Cloudera

Adding another position may not be terribly appealing, but there is one C-suite role every company should consider—chief data and analytics officer (CDO or CDAO). Data is the lifeblood of modern business, the fuel that powers digital transformation, and every company should have a data strategy.

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CDOs’ biggest problem? Getting colleagues to understand their role

CIO Business Intelligence

Now, CDOs find themselves under additional pressure to make sure organizational data is accurate and complete, as companies launch AI projects hungry for clean and easy-to-access data. In many cases, CDOs focus on business objectives, but in other cases, they have equal business and technology remits, according to the authors.

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A step-by-step guide to setting up a data governance program

IBM Big Data Hub

The primary goal of any data governance program is to deliver against prioritized business objectives and unlock the value of your data across your organization. Realize that a data governance program cannot exist on its own – it must solve business problems and deliver outcomes.