Chief Data Officer 2016 Review; 2017 Predictions;
and CDO JOBS Update for November

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Welcome to our Chief Data Officer year-end review!

We’ve created a special blog post that consists of three parts:

• Chief Data Officer Year-End Review for 2016
• Seven Chief Data Officer Predictions for 2017
• Chief Data Officer JOBS Update for November 2016

1. Chief Data Officer Year-End Review for 2016: 

According to our research, new Chief Data Officer were hired in 2016 at the following organizations:

1 800 Flowers, AIG, Alibaba Group, Bank of China, Bank of Ireland, CIBC, City of Boston, City of Syracuse Mayor’s Office, County of Los Angeles, Credit Suisse, Deloitte LLP, Dentsu Aegis Network, District of Columbia, Eli Lilly and Company, Embrace Home Loans, GE, J.P. Morgan, Kimberly-Clark Corp, Morgan Stanley, City of Los Angeles Mayor’s Office, RSA, Sainsbury’s, State of California, and Telefónica, among many others.

Click here to read more about what happened in 2016

2. Seven Chief Data Officer Predictions for 2017:

1. Prediction: Chief Data Officer Growth Continues In 2017
2. Prediction: “Office Of The CDO” (OCDO) Expands: From Silo To Enterprise
3. Prediction: Shift In Reporting Lines
4. Prediction: There Will Be Churn
5. Prediction: Chief Analytics Officers and Chief Marketing Techologists In Demand
6. Prediction: The Expansion of Cognitive Systems
7. Prediction: Data Breaches to Proliferate

Click here to read more detail about our seven predictions for 2017

Welcome back to our Chief Data Officer JOBS Update, through November 2016.

Clearly, these are exciting times to be a leader in building a data-driven culture!

• New Chief Data Officer placements (through November 2016): Congratulations to the new Chief Data Officers at Ancestry, JATO Dynamics, Kabbage, Next Level Administrators, and Veriluma Ltd, among others. Welcome to the CDO Club!
• Chief Data Officers ‘In the News’: We tracked over 45 ARTICLES and hand-picked more than FIFTEEN Chief Data Officers who made news in November, including Barclays Africa Group Limited’s Yasaman Hadjibashi; GSA’s Kris Rowley; IBM’s Inderpal Bhandari; Mashable’s Haile Owusu; NHS England’s Geraint Lewis; Pathway Ltd’s Lucie Glenday; Telefónica’s Chema Alonso; among others. How did they make the news? Find out inside.
• Open Chief Data Officer Jobs: Hey, be sure to check out NEW OPEN POSITIONS, including jobs at Cabinet Office, CyberCoders, San Francisco Public Library, SPR, and UniCredit, among others! Inside, you’ll find open posts for Chief Digital Officers, Chief Data Officers, and other C-level digital and data positions. Be sure to review the open posts on our dedicated career page.

You’ll find the details on all this and much more inside.

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