Chief Data and Analytics Officers

How Chief Data and Analytics Officers (CDAOs) grow their influence and impact.

The Gartner 2025 Leadership Vision for Data & Analytics

With AI emerging as a priority for many organizations, the role of Chief Data and Analytics Officers and their teams is vital to achieving success. To effectively manage evolving external and internal complexities, D&A leaders need to enhance their leadership and influence, leveraging new resources, adapting to swift technological advancements, and fostering collaboration with IT and business leaders.

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    Drive Business Value Through Data and Analytics

    Many D&A organizational models are structured for function optimization but lack the cross-functional alignment and collaboration needed for true D&A value creation.

    For D&A leaders, the focus is on the business decision-making processes and the underlying D&A ecosystem enabling decisions. As part of the D&A strategy and operating model, CDAOs can help optimize these two areas to improve the flow of value to customers and establish a clear connection between D&A and business value creation.

    How we address top challenges for Chief Data and Analytics Officers

    With Data and Analytics moving more into the functional business units, the top 3 priorities for Chief Data and Analytics Officers have shifted to creating a data-driven culture, developing a data analytics strategy, and ensuring data governance. Our expert guidance and research help CDAOs find new ways of thinking and pursue a modern change management approach.

    How to Prioritize Data and Analytics (D&A)

    To capture the business opportunities created by re-engineering decisions, your D&A strategy and operating model must be aligned to optimize decision-making processes and the D&A ecosystem that enables them. That means making sure your organization prioritizes D&A around value.

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    How Data & Analytics Leaders Are Shaping Generative AI Initiatives

    Generative AI is a transformative technology that has a fairly low barrier to adoption and wide applicability. Use this research to understand your role in GenAI adoption.

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    The Key To Data & Analytics Success

    All over the world, organizations are harnessing the true power of data and analytics strategies to optimize decision-making during this time of ever present disruption. Join us at the Gartner Data and Analytics Summit, where we’ll provide solutions to the most significant challenges you are facing.

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    Incorporating the right skills and capabilities in your D&A organization

    For effective decision making, people need to access and understand the data they’re using. To do that, you need to design a D&A operating model that deploys the right data and analytics skills and work in the right places.

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    New to your role?

    Your success as a CDAO will depend on your ability to establish an information governance program, facilitate data-driven decisions, and create value and increasing revenue by monetizing or exploiting data assets. Use Gartner advice, and its wide range of supporting resources, to deliver the required business outcomes and achieve success in your new role.

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    Essentials for Your First 100 Days as a CDAO

    Focus from Day 1 on establishing data and analytics as a key business value function.

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    The Chief Data and Analytics Officer’s First 100 Days - Your Roadmap to Make an Impact

    Get started in navigating this pivotal phase while accelerating business outcomes and ensuring success in your new role.

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    Roadmap: 5 Stages to Enhance Your 2025 Data and Analytics Strategy for Digital Growth

    Explore Gartner’s Data and Analytics Roadmap with proven stages and activities to align all stakeholders and drive business value.

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    Essential Roles for Data and Analytics to aid digital transformation

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    How CDAOs Drive Better Outcomes: Focus on Value, Talent and Culture

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    “When building our data strategy, it was very valuable to have someone who could bring alternative viewpoints from the POV of many different organizations.”

    Minna Kӓrhӓ
    Head of Data, Finnair

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    Data and analytics leaders are counted upon to affect corporate strategy and value, change management, business ethics, and execution performance. Let Gartner equip you with the research and guidance you need to create the biggest impact.