By 2015, 25 Percent of Large Global Organizations Will Have Appointed Chief Data Officers
Ahead of the Gartner Enterprise Information & Master Data Management 2014, held March 12-13 in London, Gartner predicts that by 2015, 25 percent of large global organizations will have appointed CDOs.
In today's blog post, Debra Logan, research vice president and Gartner Fellow, said that there are more than 100 CDOs serving in large organizations today, which is more than double the number in 2012.
Ms. Logan said:
Gartner has also found that 65 percent of CDOs are in the U.S. while 20 percent are in the U.K. There are, however, CDOs in over a dozen countries now. In addition, over 25 percent of CDOs are women, almost twice as high as for CIOs (13 percent). The position is most common in heavily regulated industries, media and government.
CIOs should view the CDO as a peer and partner who can manage data and who has the knowledge, background and skills to do so, which allows CIOs to focus on the more-than-full time job that they already have. CDOs are appearing more rapidly in some industries than in others. Banking, government and insurance are the first three industries to adopt the CDO role and in that order. However, we are now seeing other industries following. For example, we saw the first significant appointments in the advertising industry in 2013.
It is important to remember that the CDOs do not "own" the data. They may own key processes around the data and be "in charge" of some data - for example master data. The CDO owns a few things, but coordinates the use of data in other places. This is exactly like a CFO, who owns a few financial processes, like consolidation and treasury, but other than that coordinates the use of capital throughout the organization.
More information is available in the report entitled "CIO Advisory: The Chief Data Officer Trend Gains Momentum". Ms. Logan will also present on this topic on Thursday, March 13 at the Gartner Enterprise Information & Master Data Management 2014 in London and on Monday, March 31 at the Gartner Business Intelligence & Analytics Summit 2014 in Las Vegas.
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