Our latest report reveals that the average tenure of a Chief Data Officer in Europe is 1.9 years. In other words, the role designed to lead data and AI transformation across people, culture, and technology is gone in less than two years. What does that mean for your organisation?
David Reed dives into the financial side of generative AI as costs can rapidly spiral if not monitored and there is a necessity to be accurate with the use of tools.
David Reed, DataIQ’s chief knowledge officer and evangelist, explores what is required to solidify a data talent pipeline with an apprenticeship scheme.
DataIQ chief knowledge officer and evangelist, David Reed, examines the gamble surrounding AI and why businesses need to play the game.
Following an international AI summit and executive orders regarding AI from the US President, David Reed, DataIQ’s chief knowledge officer and evangelist, examines what the talk and agreements mean for the industry.
David Reed, DataIQ’s chief knowledge officer and evangelist, provides his thoughts on what can be done to re-bolster the status of data in organisations.
This whitepaper from DataIQ delves into the new world of generative AI pulls together the insights discussed at three roundtable and at the DataIQ Advisory Board meeting in May 2023.
If you could rebuild your organisation and its processes from the ground up with data and analytics at its heart, would you? For many organisations, it takes a crisis to tackle such a profound transformation. But as David Reed points out, this year’s Grand Prix winner, Jaguar Land Rover, is proof that courage has rewards.
Just as owning a Ferrari does not make you a Formula One driver, so having built a centralised data asset does not make your organisation data literate. Plenty of obstacles get in the way of building out a shared culture and set of behaviours. David Reed identifies five typical challenges.
Launch of the most influential 100 people in data working in the United States of America identifies high-flying chief data officers and chief analytics officers, with data leader of Universal Music Group heading the pack.
Outsourcing can be effective and deliver a new solution rapidly. Or it can become challenging with scope creep and missed deadlines. It is almost certainly inevitable, even within data departments. A DataIQ Leaders roundtable considered the drivers of outsourcing and the critical success factors to look out for. David Reed reports.
Has your organisation decided when it will fully re-open its offices and, if so, how often it expects workers to be there? It is one of the crucial questions being asked by companies, many of them having decided to downsize their physical space. A DataIQ Leaders roundtable discovered how Covid-19 had changed working practices and workspace for data departments. David Reed reports.
Data for good is a popular term that connects the common desire to engage with big picture initiatives and the potential of data to have societal, environmental and economic impacts. But what D4G means can be very different from one organisation to another. This briefing draws on a DataIQ Leaders roundtable that surfaced some of the issues involved in embedding charitable activities alongside commercial ones.
Last year presented as many opportunities as challenges for DataIQ Leaders members, from delivering long dreamed-of data migrations to digital transformations and leading-edge innovation. During a roundtable in February 2021, two very different types of project were identified which have mutual benefits and dependencies.
Guide Dogs for the Blind recently went through a wide-reaching digital transformation, building its data and digital capabilities to support to those living with visual impairment better. CIO Gerard McGovern and Caroline Carruthers, CEO of Carruthers and Jackson and lead data consultant on the project, spoke to DataIQ about the goals and opportunities for the programme.
Bloomberg processes hundreds of billions of pieces of data from the global capital markets every day. To make it available for automated analytics, it first needs to be annotated. The experience it has built up from doing this has been pulled into a best practice guide to help other machine learning projects. Legal analyst Tina Tseng talked to DataIQ about this critical step in preparing structured and unstructured data.
The start of the academic year each Autumn is usually a critical juncture for employers. Data and analytics departments have recently joined in this milk round activity, but with many universities putting the entire 2020/21 academic year onto a virtual footing with remote tuition, the usual pathways for recruitment appear blocked. A roundtable held in October 2020 explored whether conventional approaches to building talent at the top of the funnel are still relevant in the circumstances
One of the longest-running discussions around data is exactly how to value the contribution it makes to a business. Hard metrics can be difficult to define and put in place, as a recent DataIQ Leaders roundtable revealed. This briefing note considers some of the ways in which members are trying to prove the return on investment they deliver
According to recent research carried out by DataIQ, around two-thirds of organisations (63.6%) are pursuing customer data integration as part of their digital transformation. Yet only one in ten (10.2%) have achieved this nirvana. This whitepaper considers the challenges of enterprise-wide data integration across the data estate.
Momentum is an important aspect of the task facing any chief data officer (CDO) or chief analytics officer (CAO) as they embed this function into their organisation. But if the data office and analytics function has been slow in bringing significant benefits and transformation to the organisation, it can face deep challenges from the business. This white paper looks at some of the root causes and how to address them.
