The new CxO gang: data, AI, and robotics

A slide taken from one of the speakers at the CDO Summit in London illustrating business drivers and capabilities and how they related to the CDO job. Apparently, it is a new role born in a lighter form straight after the financial crisis springing from the need to have a central figure to deal with technology, regulation and reporting. Therefore, the CDO is basically the guy who acts as a liaison between the CTO(tech guy) and the CAO/Head of Data Science (data guy) and takes care of data quality and data management. Actually, its final goal is to guarantee that everyone can get access to the right data in virtually no time. In that sense, a CDO is the guy in charge of'democratizing data' within the company. It is not a static role, and it evolved from simply being a facilitator to being a data governor, with the tasks of defining data management policies and business priorities, shaping not only the data strategy, but also the frameworks, procedures, and tools.