Information Sage: The Role of the Chief Data Officer
When the term “big data” began surfacing, the role of the chief data officer started moving into the limelight. At first, the focus was mainly on security: how do we protect our information systems so that we don’t become the next Target? But as business leaders realized that Google and Facebook were capitalizing on big data long before some of the world’s most famous hacks (and prior to “big data” being bandied about as a new concept), companies started investing in efforts to monetize the information they already had on hand.
