
Creating a Data-Driven Organization: Practical Advice from the Trenches

I believe that data-driven organizations have to respect their users’ rights and sensibilities.
Carl Anderson • Creating a Data-Driven Organization: Practical Advice from the Trenches
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Carl Anderson • Creating a Data-Driven Organization: Practical Advice from the Trenches
Data is powerful, but also dangerous.
Carl Anderson • Creating a Data-Driven Organization: Practical Advice from the Trenches
I hinted earlier that risk mitigation can often restrict activity more than is legally required. Why is that?
Carl Anderson • Creating a Data-Driven Organization: Practical Advice from the Trenches
This ranges from policies around data quality and data sharing to service levels for access. They also cover the creation, maintenance, and visibility of data dictionaries across the organization.
Carl Anderson • Creating a Data-Driven Organization: Practical Advice from the Trenches
Analysis “Transforming data assets into competitive insights that will drive business decisions and actions using people, processes and technologies”2
Carl Anderson • Creating a Data-Driven Organization: Practical Advice from the Trenches
argue that organizations should, as a guiding principle, practice empathy.
Carl Anderson • Creating a Data-Driven Organization: Practical Advice from the Trenches
Everyone who needs access to data to perform their function has access. Everyone only has access to the data that they need to perform their function. Sensitive data, such as customer and prescription data, should be treated with extreme caution: highly restrict access, anonymize, and encrypt.
Carl Anderson • Creating a Data-Driven Organization: Practical Advice from the Trenches
The CDO may run the analytics org, supervising teams of analysts and/or data scientists.