The Chief Data Officer used to be the person who made sure everyone had access to dashboards. Now they’re being asked to run parts of the business like a miniature CEO. This shift isn’t subtle. It’s the difference between being invited to the strategy meeting and being responsible for whether the strategy actually makes money. […]
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Most CFOs treat data the way medieval cartographers treated blank spaces on maps: they acknowledge it exists, they know it matters, but they’re not quite sure what to do with it. The irony is thick. These are the same executives who can tell you the depreciation schedule of every forklift in the warehouse but struggle
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Your board wants to see money. You want to talk about data assets. This is not a communication problem. This is a translation problem. Most people approach this gap by trying harder to explain why data matters. They bring charts about data quality scores. They cite McKinsey statistics about data-driven companies. They use phrases like
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