Chief Data Officer to Build Data & Analytics Leadership Traits

Chief data officers can create competitive advantage through data and analytics innovation, data literacy & data-driven digital transformation.

2022 Leadership Vision for Data and Analytics Leaders

Progressive data and analytics (D&A) leaders are shifting the conversation away from tools and technology and toward decision making as a business competency. This evolution will take time to achieve, but D&A leaders are in the best position to help orchestrate and lead this change.

To help you prioritize your time and energy, we've created the Gartner Leadership Vision to provide top-level guidance on where to focus — based on our data-driven research. Leverage this eBook to:

Quickly and effectively diagnose priorities and actions
Help solidify your strategic plan for 2022
Discover three opportunities to drive digital-era hypergrowth

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Discover the top 3 strategic priorities for D&A leaders in 2022.

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Drive digital transformation through data and analytics

Data and analytics is central to the intelligent composable business. Data and analytics leaders must therefore select and invest in the most appropriate data and analytics strategies that will accelerate their digital ambitions.

According to Gartner’s View From the Board of Directors Survey 2021, a striking 66% listed digital technology initiatives as their top priority, compared with 29% that identified customer engagement as their next most important area of focus.

The top game-changers needed to emerge stronger from the crisis were analytics (78%) and artificial intelligence (AI) (69%).

Data and Analytics Strategies driving the future. AI, Data and Analytics combine to create outcomes.

How we address top challenges for Chief Data Officers

With Data and Analytics moving more into the functional business units, the top 3 priorities for Chief Data Officers have shifted to creating a data-driven culture, developing a data analytics strategy, and ensuring data governance. Our expert guidance and research help CDOs find new ways of thinking and pursue a modern change management approach.

Define key D&A decisions contributing to business growth

Progressive leaders re-engineer data and analytics to turn decision-making into a competitive advantage. Business, data and analytics, and other IT leaders need to work together, each bringing their unique competencies to support the breadth and depth of the art and science of effective decision making.

Re-engineer Decision Making

The Key To Data & Analytics Success

We live in busy times, and we need to take the time to think about what is important. What is important in data and analytics is change. Here’s how to succeed. Rewatch this opening keynote from Gartner Data & Analytics Summit 2021.

Elevate Data and Analytics Strategies

Data and analytics have become a primary driver of business strategy yet, for many organizations, the ability to “think in data” is still difficult. Explore over 100 Data and Analytics predictions through 2025 to elevate your D&A strategies and enhance your digital vision and delivery.

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Execute Successful Data Governance Initiatives

Digital business success hinges on modern and effective data and analytics. A clear strategy is vital to the success of a data and analytics investment. Executives and their teams must consider how to ensure data quality, data governance, and data literacy in their organizations as part of their data and analytics strategy.

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New to your role?

Your success as a CDO will depend on your ability to establish an information governance program, facilitate data-driven decisions, and create value and increasing revenue by monetizing or exploiting data assets. Use Gartner advice, and its wide range of supporting resources, to deliver the required business outcomes and achieve success in your new role.

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