Driven by Data | The Podcast
Kyle Winterbottom was joined by Allison Sagraves, the founding (former) Chief Data Officer at M&T Bank, and now Board Advisor and Writer. Where they discuss the role of the CDAO in the new era of AI and why they are set up to fail
Within this episode, we cover…
🎤The three generations of CDO to CDAO and the pending CDAIO role
🎤The functional evolution of the CDAO role
🎤Why the goalposts keep moving for the CDAO
🎤The need for defined success metrics
🎤Why the Data & Analytics industry is always under construction
🎤Why we’re too glass half empty and there’s too much focus on what we’ve not achieved
🎤The need to quantify what value is and communicate the value we’ve achieved
🎤The “build it and they will come” mentality
🎤How we no longer need to sell the simple concepts of data
🎤How you know if you’ve got the wrong people in your company
🎤Whether reporting line impacts the effectiveness of the CDAO role
🎤The hardest thing for any CDAO to figure out is identifying what problem you actually need to solve
🎤What’s wrong with the CDAO role as of today
🎤What needs to happen to address those issues
🎤Moving into the AI era as a CDAO
🎤The skills needed to be a modern-day CDAO
