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Just Adding a Chief Data Officer Isn’t Enough

Harvard Business Review

If you’ve decided to move ahead, then the next step is to effectively build that role into the rest of the top management team. Chief Operating and Finance Officers side-step this issue given the broader power-base of their positions.). Have this negotiation as part of the new Chief Data Officer on-boarding.

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A Simple Way to Map Out Your Career Ambitions

Harvard Business Review

From a business strategist who can appear aloof and dismissive of those with less intellectual horsepower, to a general manager who aligns and inspires her region through personal connections and demonstrates genuine care for people. Email each leader , asking for an informal conversation in which they can help someone in their field develop.

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Why Can't a CIO Be More Like a CFO?

Harvard Business Review

It''s time for CIOs to move beyond their roles as chief technology officers, and embrace the name with all of its implications: Chief Information Officer. Because no one is managing the store. The explosive growth of information is accelerating. But it should be the CIO''s job. Back to the Future.

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The Right Way to Present Your Business Case

Harvard Business Review

That could mean illustrating the effects of a proposed customer management system with testimonials from actual customers, or describing how the data-sharing project you want to expand helped keep employees connected during a major outage. But first, he needed the approval of management. Address your audience’s concerns.

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How a German Manufacturing Company Set Up Its Analytics Lab

Harvard Business Review

This gave ZF access to top-notch expertise in data analytics and the management of information systems. Finance, Logistics, Marketing, Sales, as well as Production and Quality all produced large amounts of data that could be interesting for data science pilot projects. The hardest part was figuring out how the lab would work.

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