CDOs and CDAOs: Rethink your role or fade away [Video]

Chief data and analytics officers must better demonstrate their value to the business and to AI projects to maintain C-suite status for the long haul, analysts project.

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Chief data and analytics officers need to reinvent themselves in the age of AI or risk their responsibilities being assimilated by their organizations’ IT teams, according to a new Gartner report.

Three-quarters of CDAOs who fail to make companywide influence and measurable business impact their top priorities by 2026 will be swallowed up by IT functions, the analyst firm predicts.

With generative AI requiring organizations to re-evaluate their data strategies, CDAOs and chief data officers need to step up as leaders and demonstrate business value beyond their standard data management and governance functions, Gartner advises.

At the same time, CDAOs and CDOs have huge opportunities to influence and assist with their organizations’ AI projects, but they must avoid getting tangled up in turf battles with CIOs, …