Chief Data & Analytics Officer JOBS Update Through October 2020*|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT|*
Monday December 28, 2020
Chief Data & Analytics Officer JOBS Update Through October 2020
Featured Article: “Pandemic Driving ‘Back to Basics’ in Big Data, Study Suggests” with Alation CDAO Aaron Kalb
In this issue, we list EIGHT new CDO appointments for October; we tracked 60 CDO ARTICLES; and hand-picked NINETEEN CDOs who made the news in October; and we posted more new open global CDO positions on our CDO Career page!
New Chief Data Officer placements (through October 2020): EIGHT new CDOs were hired in October, we provide the highlights below. Congratulations to the new Chief Data Officers/Chief Analytics Officers at Merck, US Army, US Department of State, USAA Federal Savings Bank, and more! Welcome to the CDO Club!
Chief Data Officers ‘In the News’: Consider us your personal CDO “news clippings” service. We tracked 60 CDO ARTICLES and hand-picked NINETEEN CDOs who made the news in October, including Alation’s Aaron Kalb, County of Denver’s Paul Kresser, NASA’s Ron Thompson, Signal AI’s Miguel Martinez, ThoughtSpot’s Cindi Howson and UW Medicine’s Adam Wilcox! How did they make news? Find out inside.
Open Chief Data Officer Jobs: Our career page lists over two dozen current CDO/CAO jobs. You’ll find open posts for Chief Digital Officers, Chief Data Officers, Chief Analytics Officers, and other C-level positions. Be sure to review the open posts on our dedicated career page.
You’ll find the details on all this and much more inside.
Of the 60 articles published in October on CDAOs that we tracked, we thought you would enjoy this piece from Datanami on “Pandemic Driving ‘Back to Basics’ in Big Data, Study Suggests.“ The article included Alation Inc’s “State of Data Culture Report” with quotes from Aaron Kalb, Chief Data Analytics Officer at Alation, which we excerpted below:
“In its State of Data Culture Report, which Alation officially unveiled yesterday, 300 C-level executives, mid-level execs, and managers at mid-to-large companies (2,500 employee minimum) were asked a series of questions about their data and analytics investments. The survey revealed some interesting data tidbits, including the existence of a “data culture disconnect” in how organizations perceive themselves versus their actual capabilities.
Part of the survey had to do with how the COVID-19 pandemic had impacted their big data projects. When survey-takers were asked what tools they are using more during the start of the pandemic, business intelligence and data visualization tools led the list, with 47% and 43% of respondents indicating their usage was up, respectively, outpacing increases in AI, machine learning, forecasting, and dashboards.
Alation co-founder and Chief Data and Analytics Officer Aaron Kalb has some ideas why this may be the case.
“One thing that I was really interested and excited to see was how COVID has changed behaviors in organizations,” says Kalb, who spearheaded the survey. “In particular, if you look at the distribution of responses, there are folks who talk about new machine learning, new AI, and new fancy data science stuff. They’re excited about that stuff they’re doing internally, and I love that.”
“But the thing that’s seen the biggest increase actually is BI and visualization and cataloging, which you could describe as a back to basics to approach,” he continues. “The idea is, when the world is super uncertain, instead of this attempt to bet on some crazy algorithm…let’s get really good at sourcing the right data and looking at the right data and doing the right thing.”
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All this information – and more – is included in our monthly CDO Jobs Update blog posts. CDO Club members gain access to these Updates, all the way back to Q4 2014.
For many vendors, its become increasingly difficult to keep track of who is in charge at their client’s organizations. Shifting budgets, internal battles over head-count, new decision-makers in the C-Suite. Almost every sector has been affected.
Seasoned leaders with experience in digital transformation and data-driven culture are increasingly getting the keys to the kingdom, reporting to the CEO and the Board.
We’ve been tracking this shift since 2011, when there were only a few hundred CDOs and CAOs on earth. Now, thousands of people hold those titles.
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