Description
Today enterprises are increasingly dependent on data to keep their business competitive and successful. To better harness values of data, more and more organizations are establishing Chief Data Officer (CDO) position. The professional skills of CDOs are rather diverse because CDOs are expected to undertake a variety of roles in their companies including enterprise data architect, data quality and governance manager, business strategy leader, business regulation compliance officer, etc. CDO is an emerging research field, few studies have been done on CDO. This paper tries to profile what are the key professional skills and education background that current CDOs have by studying their resumes on LinkedIn using topic modeling technique. This work is a step forward towards understanding the roles of CDOs in organizations and what are the professional skills and experience they may need have in order to undertake their responsibilities of managing data and realizing its true values for their organizations.
Recommended Citation
DAI, WEI and Wu, Ningning, "Profiling Essential Professional Skills of Chief Data Officers Through Topical Modeling Algorithms" (2017). AMCIS 2017 Proceedings. 26.
https://aisel.aisnet.org/amcis2017/AdvancesIS/Presentations/26
Profiling Essential Professional Skills of Chief Data Officers Through Topical Modeling Algorithms
Today enterprises are increasingly dependent on data to keep their business competitive and successful. To better harness values of data, more and more organizations are establishing Chief Data Officer (CDO) position. The professional skills of CDOs are rather diverse because CDOs are expected to undertake a variety of roles in their companies including enterprise data architect, data quality and governance manager, business strategy leader, business regulation compliance officer, etc. CDO is an emerging research field, few studies have been done on CDO. This paper tries to profile what are the key professional skills and education background that current CDOs have by studying their resumes on LinkedIn using topic modeling technique. This work is a step forward towards understanding the roles of CDOs in organizations and what are the professional skills and experience they may need have in order to undertake their responsibilities of managing data and realizing its true values for their organizations.