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Five Ways Data Leaders Can Thrive in the Age of the CDO
As organizations increasingly view data as a valuable asset, more CDOs are being recruited to harvest, manage, protect and mine it. Gartner’s last Chief Data Officer survey revealed a 57 percent...
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From Doom to Delight: How to Turn Around Any Data
If you were going to start a company, where would you begin? Build a headquarters for 2,000 people? Hire a big sales team? List some shares on the New York...
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Sorry, Data Literacy isn’t Optional for Your
When I worked at AOL many years ago, the company would often conduct surveys to gauge customer satisfaction. You know the type: “Press 1 to leave your...
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Don’t Let an Overly Authoritarian GDPR Approach
As daunting as GDPR can seem, there are also beneficial aspects to it. Most notably, having a single standard across Europe to comply with.
My teenagers...
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AI is on Its Way to the Enterprise, Bringing Easy
On a recent trip to New York City, I found myself with only 30 minutes to travel 2 miles between meetings. In the rain. In the past, this would have meant...
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Your Analytics Need an Adrenaline Injection, but
Remember when you used to have to call a cab and wait fifteen minutes to get a ride? Or ask a librarian to find a copy of your favorite book, then meander...
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Practical Tips for Success with Machine Learning
In the last year, the hype around AI has been deafening. And for good reason. Despite a long hiatus in the AI research community without any major wins, we’ve...
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Not Taking a Risk is The Biggest Risk
Adapted from a talk given by Bask Iyer.
I grew up off the coast south of Chennai in southern India. For those who don’t know India, there are beautiful...
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How to Succeed as a Chief Data Officer
As part of our ongoing #CxO ThoughtLeader best practices series, this week we welcome Carole McCluskey, CIO and CTO of TrueBlue, Inc., to talk about best...
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What the C-Suite Wants from the Chief Information
Many CIOs express the desire to be strategic and relevant to the C-suite and yet struggle getting there
Why can’t all businesses create an “Amazon”...
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How to Win in the Age of AI
The promise of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has fascinated us for a long time.
As early as 1951 when by some definition the first AI programs were...
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CEO + CDO: Four Strategies for Partnering to Drive
Adapted from a talk Ken Rudin gave at ThoughtSpot’s CxO event in June 2017.
As a Chief Data Officer or somebody running an analytics organization, what are...
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5 Ways Data Governance Is—and Is Not—Changing
Like many of us in high school, my kids have recently discovered Pink Floyd’s “Another Brick in the Wall (Part 2).” It’s no surprise that teenagers...
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CDO Best Practices from Michael Keithley
As part of our ongoing #CxO ThoughtLeader best practices series, this week we welcome Michael Keithley, CIO of United Talent Agency, to talk about best...
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Top 5 Concerns for a Chief Data Officer
Traditionally the role of the Chief Information Officer, owning the data strategy for an organization has increasingly been carved off into a separate C-Level...
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Advice to the CDO—There's No Such Thing as a
A few years ago I came across an infographic representing most of the vendors in the “big data landscape.” It contained hundreds of companies, some of...
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5 Lessons Your Company Can Learn from a Startup
What do you think of when you hear about Fortune 500 companies? Large, stable companies that have stood the test of time. Organizations with significant...
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The Elephant in the Room: The Hidden Cost of BI
Anyone who has ever been involved in implementing a Business Intelligence (BI) solution has also been involved in understanding the costs of that solution. In...
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Seven Secrets CDOs Should Know about Data-Driven
Today’s stakes are higher
Data has never been more central to the world of marketing than it is today. CMO budgets are rising fast, and with them rises the...
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Machine Learning Is the New Hadoop
Although I took statistics classes in college, my first real introduction to practical advanced analytics was in 2008 when Netezza purchased NuTech Solutions to...
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3 More Secrets of Successful Data Strategies
A few weeks ago we talked about the top 3 factors of a successful data strategy.
I’ve had a number of people ask me for more—it’s a broad topic that...
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Destroy the competition with these data strategies
In the movie Moneyball, Peter Brand fundamentally changes the way baseball players are scouted and evaluated.
Statistics in baseball aren’t new, in fact...
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3 Secrets of Successful Data Strategies
Don’t you hate it when the big strategic project you’ve invested time, money, and other resources in ends in failure?
How do you prevent that? You’ve...
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5 Ways Machine Learning Can Make Your BI Better
Everyone seems to be discussing machine learning and artificial intelligence, but few people really know how to take advantage of the new technology. Did you...
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Building a Team with an Analytic Mindset
You just got the job you’ve been working for—Chief Data Officer. Congratulations!
It seems like everyone has ideas about what you should do. The CTO...
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The Future of Analytics: Answering the “Next”
If you had to guess, what percentage of your organization is happy with the amount of data they have to do their jobs? 50%? 30%? I bet it’s less than 10%. And...
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It’s Time to Think Different About BI
The pace of business change is higher than it has ever been. A big influence is the emergence of digital channels and disruptions in every industry from...
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The Analytics Battle: Agility vs. Governance
https://www.thoughtspot.com/solutions/embedded-analyticsDespite the recent rise in data analytics as a “topic du jour” the concept has been around for over...
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The #1 Lesson BI Should Steal From Consumer
The BI industry has seen a slow, shallow evolution over the last few decades. Sure, a few things have improved. But reporting today looks pretty similar to what...
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