This leadership exchange provides insights from recent research findings, helping CDAOs navigate the road ahead for data and analytics in their organization. The emphasis will be on the exploration of the impact of these findings and how it changes the way CDAOS think about the way they lead.

This leadership exchange will introduce Gartner's new CDAO Effectiveness Model, and explore how it can be used to understand where CDAOs have well developed capabilities, and where there are threats and opportunities that must be addressed. As a leadership exchange, CDAOs can explore with their peers how this model can best be applied to deliver higher levels of performance.

Data and analytics leaders using cloud-based solutions are often surprised by cost overruns. A continuous and iterative approach to financial governance — embodied in the emerging practice of FinOps — is required. Proactive, reactive and product-specific measures are foundational and serve as the basis for new approaches. Augmented FinOps provides a view of emerging future capabilities.

In the disruption-as-usual climate that CDAOs face today, it is difficult to shift the focus of data and analytics teams from delivering insight to discovery of new business value. This research discussion provides an opportunity for CDAOs to discuss case studies that have shown such success, and explore how success could be translated to their organizational context.

AI is not the only thing driving rapid change in D&A. There is a rapid evolution in how and where analysis can be deployed, from the next generation of augmented UXs and beyond; composing and operationalizing D&A at scale; engineering decision intelligence; and relating everything; to enabling D&A at the edge. Understanding the business impact of these changes will allow organizations to resource optimize, accelerate change, drive innovation and transform society over the next three years.