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If you want to be using AI, you need a CDO

CIO cannot be the Chief Data Officer

CIO cannot be the Chief Data Officer

CIO cannot be the Chief Data Officer


A CIO is usually busy in sorting out IT infrastructure and enterprise apps availability. The skills are wholly focussed on availability of systems and to some extent data security from external breaches. The CDO need not bother about availability of IT systems, nor about cyber attacks.

CTO cannot be the Chief Data Officer

CIO cannot be the Chief Data Officer

CIO cannot be the Chief Data Officer

A CTO in a telecom service company is a technologist who is primarily busy in imbibing new technology, rolling out services, getting teams trained to use the technology etc. These skills are very useful for the areas mentioned above but not enough for managing the company wide data.

Skills of a Chief Data Officer

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Data Science

Industry Domain Knowledge

Data Science

Clear understanding of statistical concepts like statistical significance, Inferential statistics, null hypothesis, etc and can implement Machine Learning techniques to solve a prediction problem.

Understands techniques of mining  large amounts of unstructured data.

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Coding

Industry Domain Knowledge

Data Science

Coding experience. 

Preferably in a data science language like

R or Python.

This separates the CDO from a generalist.

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Industry Domain Knowledge

Industry Domain Knowledge

Industry Domain Knowledge

Can communicate and understand domain experts (e.g. telecommunication services). Since the CDO has to formulate strategies for feature engineering of datasets, domain knowledge of the operations and core business is extremely important.

Role of a CDO

  • Overseeing Data Governance.
  • Data Management and Data stewardship across the enterprise.
  • Adherence to existing regulations and closing any compliance gaps.
  • Acting as a bridge between business and technology. 
  • Standardising data capture methodology.
  • Create AI/ML strategy and implementation plan across the enterprise


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