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A Daily Lexicon of Trustworthy Data

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chief data officer

/tʃiːf ˈdeɪ.tə ˈɒf.ɪ.sər/ - n.

1 [colloq.] An accountability spread across an average tenure shorter than a remediation plan.Keep. Punchy.This is the problem.

Working definition

2. The executive accountable for an organization's data strategy, governance, quality, and value realization.

Evidence

Seen in the wild · 1

The chief data officer leaves before the definition of "customer" does.Owner Missing

See also

data governanceThe meeting where everyone agrees data is important and no one agrees who owns it.
executive sponsorThe name on the kickoff slide, available again at the one-year retrospective.
governance officeThe function accountable for everything and authorized for the calendar invites.