Michael Hiskey is a long-time data industry executive. An accomplished writer, speaker, and blogger, he spends much of his time thinking about innovations that impact the chief data officer and related business functions in organizations around the world. For 20 years, he has spearheaded projects in marketing, sales, software development, and customer success at companies from IBM and MicroStrategy to Kognitio and Trifacta. A proud New York Native, he holds an MBA from Columbia Business School and current runs marketing and strategy at Semarchy.
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The CRM is greedy when it comes to collecting data, but stingy when it comes to sharing it
That’s good for everyone, as it respects that data has become so important to people’s livelihood—their credit scores just as much their personalities—that it shouldn’t be treated differently than they would be treated
Regulations like GDPR are getting headlines, but the song remains the same
Business solutions start with clear definitions of data
Beyond buzzwords and analyst-speak, putting data into practice
What should chief data and analytics officers do to substantiate their roles and deliver on the long-term goals they’ve been signed up to accomplish?
To the extent an organization can get back to the basics of mastering their data, they will not only meet the new requirements imposed by GDPR, but treat that data with the respect it deserves
CDOs will learn to acknowledge roadblocks that loom in the same place as victories