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5 surefire ways to derail a digital transformation (without knowing it)

CIO Business Intelligence

Despite the best of intentions, CIOs and their organizations often struggle to deliver business outcomes from digital transformation strategies. And while KPMG reports that 72% of CEOs have aggressive digital investment strategies, McKinsey details a harsh reality that 70% of transformations fail.

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Examining Cargill’s push to nurture growth through digital and data strategies

CIO Business Intelligence

Having joined its executive team 18 months ago, CDIO Jennifer Hartsock oversees its global technology portfolio, and digital and data strategies, so she has to keep track of a lot of moving parts, both large and small, to help achieve the company’s big corporate strategy about being ‘better together.’ “It

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CDOs’ biggest problem? Getting colleagues to understand their role

CIO Business Intelligence

One possible definition of the CDO is the organization’s leader responsible for data governance and use, including data analysis , mining , and processing. There’s more and more focus on being data-driven,” says Mahajan, who leads the Amplitude data strategy efforts, in addition to her digital and technology roles. “It

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The Foundations of a Modern Data-Driven Organisation: Gaining a Clear View of the Customer

Cloudera

We have increasingly moved purchases online in recent years fueled by the COVID-19 pandemic and general trends in Digital Transformation. Any article on what it means to be “Data Driven” makes references to Data Strategy, Data Culture and Decision Culture. Data Strategy. Conclusion.

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As insurers look to be more agile, data mesh strategies take centerstage

CIO Business Intelligence

The data mesh debate This is not to say that there is a consensus that data mesh is a universal solution. Stakeholders are currently waging an open debate across the industry of centralization versus federated data strategies. Data Center, Data Management, Digital Transformation

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4 Steps to Data-first Modernization

CIO Business Intelligence

Data-first leaders are: 11x more likely to beat revenue goals by more than 10 percent. 5x more likely to be highly resilient in terms of data loss. 4x more likely to have high job satisfaction among both developers and data scientists. Create a CXO-driven data strategy. Data has rights and sovereignty.

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Simplifying the Multisiloed Landscape to Achieve Data-First Modernization

CIO Business Intelligence

Manufacturing is creating large volumes of data at the edge, which is yet another silo not easily available to the greater organization to inform business insights and initiate data-first decision-making. Creating the optimal foundation for a shared data lens and data-first business starts with defining a sound data strategy.