TONY MAGHIRANG

the idea that data is a precious resource, top executives have also understood the problem that potentially valuable data is everywhere, within and without the company—largely unmanaged, liable to be corrupted and exposed to theft, and existing in islands isolated from the mainstream of integration and cooperation.

Ensuring that data is properly managed, safe, and secure as well as shared among duly authorized partners and stakeholders is the main job of a CDO in the effort to meet the organization’s visionmission.

It’s a responsibility that can be reasonably ascribed to be within the functions of a chief the CIO takes care primarily of the infrastructure, the provision of hardware, software, and networking systems, among others. Data management can still be among the duties of the CIO position but presently, every sector, from business establishments to educational institutions and non-government organizations, is now drowning in data ,so the idea of a separate guardian of data in any organization becomes of vital importance.

In the comparably more laidback ‘90s, the eventual functions of a CDO were then handled by CIOs mostly in the finance industry. They grabbed data from various sources, churned them into useful information, then made sure they conformed to security and governance standards.

The deluge of data came with the rapid expansion of the Internet. Now, the advent of digital transformation and the Internet