Putting a price on your head (of data): The ROI of a CDO

It’s the biggest challenge facing chief data officers: placing a value on their own positions. In order to secure funding for ambitious (read: expensive) data management projects, they must demonstrate the value of good data quality for more than just the sake of good data quality. Thus, even though a CDO in a large organization may oversee an annual budget of more than $30 million, the average tenure of a CDO is just 2.4 years—barely enough time to get any significant data management project