Predictions 2020: AI Aspirations Will Both Sizzle And Simmer

Confident CDAOs and CIOs will come to the rescue to break data logjams. Data scientists often struggle to acquire, transform, and prepare the data they need to start a machine-learning (ML) project. Data lakes, data engineers, and data prep tools have helped, but the real problem is sourcing data from a complex portfolio of applications and convincing various data gatekeepers to play along. In 2020, senior executives like chief data and analytics officers (CDAOs) and CIOs who are serious about AI will come to the rescue, with a top-down mandate to get around the data access problem. Firms with chief data officers (CDOs) are already about 1.5 times more likely to use AI, ML, and/or deep learning for their insights initiatives than those without CDOs.