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Andrew White
Distinguished VP Analyst, Chief of Research
Andrew is a distinguished Analyst and VP and has a primary research focus on the chief data and analytics officer (CDAO) role and responsibility. This includes data and analytics strategy, governance, organization and roles, business value of data and analytics and so on. He also focuses on terms of tools and technology on those related to data and analytics governance.
He is currently Chief of Research, Markets and oversees and coordinates our efforts related to how we cover markets in our research. Before that he was Chief of Research for China where he helped set up and organize our go-to-market Research storyline and team. Before that he was lucky enough to be the lead the overall research content development plan for our new CDAO product offering. And before this he was the Chief of Research for Data and Analytics. He has also been Vendor Lead for Oracle Corp. He was the Research leader behind the first ever Master Data Management Summit (MDM) in 2007 and was conference chair of that event through 2015 as it expanded focus to enterprise information and MDM, before merging with Analytics and BI to form Data and Analytics.
Andrew has been the recipient of the Gartner Thought Leadership Award. The first was in 2006 for his efforts in pioneering Gartner's research in Enterprise Information Management that led to MDM. His second was in 2021 as part of a team developing our Data Fabric research. His previous coverage areas focused on business apps and best practices in supply chain management (SCM), enterprise resource planning (ERP) and multienterprise B2B collaboration environments.
Previous experience
Prior to joining Gartner, Mr. White was in the software industry for eight years, consulting on SCM/SCP and collaboration (CPFR and CTM) solutions to CPG/retail companies, mainly in the U.S. Mr. White also served on the VICS (www.vics.org) CPFR (www.cpfr.org) Advisory Committee, where he chaired the Trading Exchange Interoperability subcommittee and previously chaired the n-tier CPFR subcommittee. His last role there was heading up product strategy. Before that, he served in the CPG/retail space in the U.K., where he worked for Elizabeth Arden, a cosmetics company.
Professional background
Belling, Product Planning Manager and MRP II Project Leader, 2 years
Elizabeth Arden, Distribution Planning Manager, 6 years
Logility, Vice President, Product Strategy, 9 years
Areas of coverage
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Data Management Solutions
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Analytics and Artificial Intelligence
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Data and Analytics Leaders and Programs
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Chief Data and Analytics Officer Executive Leadership
Education
B.A., with honors, Economics
Diploma from BPICS (then the British version of APICS)
Diploma in Industrial Management, Institute of Industrial Management, U.K.
Top Issues That I Help Clients Address
The role, skills and scope for the chief data and analytics officer (CDAO, CDO etc.)
How to build a business-relevant data and analytics strategy and/or operating model
How to become a data-driven organization and realize the business value of data and analytics
How to succeed with a business-relevant data and analytics governance or MDM program
Select technologies for data and analytics governance and stewardship