What roles are needed
The roles needed in an office of the CDO vary depending on the size and complexity of the organization. The CDO plays a critical role in helping organizations make better decisions by providing them with access to high-quality data. They also help organizations to comply with data privacy regulations. Therefore, the first role we will establish and define is that of CDO. The CDO is unlikely to be the first hire for data in an organization.
Most often, there are team members who exist and may even be excelling prior to the hiring or establishment of the CDO. Usually, some kind of organizational moment (a crisis, a need to make a shift toward using data, a realization that the company is failing to make timely decisions) has happened, which drives the hiring of a data executive. There are usually data professionals in a company ahead of this hire. They usually are not organized in a central function, or they are centralized but with lower-level professionals...