Key Takeaways
- The role of chief data officer meets two urgent needs on campus: leading data administration efforts and building analytics capacity to drive decisions with data.
- Like all valuable assets, data need active, intentional, and coherent management, perhaps best known as data governance.
- The CDO can and should evangelize the value of data for analytics and decision support, while data governance ensures the best data are available to support an institution's tactical needs and strategic objectives.