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Everything we do is based on sharing knowledge about data and to this end we have 3 bestselling books.

The Chief Data Officer’s Playbook is a data book aimed at data people. Offering a compelling guide to anyone looking to understand the current (and possible future) CDO landscape it gives practical advice for data leaders from leading practitioners. Covering all the areas you need to address to manage the risk and drive the value from data.

Data Driven Business Transformation is a data book for business people. Everyone uses data at work and home and it is important that everyone is part of the journey to improve an organisations data maturity. Learn how to optimise the performance of your company through data enabled processes including guidance for transitioning your company to a data-enabled business model; mastering versatile data principles to produce transformative results; winning hearts of your employees and influencing a cultural shift to a data-enabled business

Halo Data

Halo Data

Understanding and Leveraging the Value of your Data

The past two decades have seen an explosion both in the volume of data we use, and our understanding of its management.

Halo Data proposes a paradigm shift in methodology for organisations to properly appreciate and leverage the value of their data.

The book presents a new concept and framework for understanding and quantifying value in an organisation’s data and a practical methodology for using this in practice.

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The Chief Data Officer's Playbook

The Chief Data Officer's Playbook (2nd Edition) - New!

This fully revised and updated edition of the bestselling Chief Data Officer’s Playbook offers new insights into the role of the CDO and the data environment. Written by two of the world’s leading experts in data driven transformation, it addresses the changes that have taken place in ‘data’, in the role of the ‘CDO’, and the expectations and ambitions of organisations. Most importantly, it will place the role of the CDO into the context of a c-suite player for organisations that wish to recover quickly and with long-term stability from the current global economic downturn.

New coverage includes:
  • the evolution of the CDO role, what those changes mean for organisations and individuals, and what the future might hold
  • a focus on ethics, the data revolution and all the areas that help readers take their first steps on the data journey
  • new conversations and experiences from an alumni of data leaders compiled over the past three years
  • new chapters and reflections on being a third generation CDO and on working across a broad spectrum of organisations who are all on different parts of their data journey.

Written in a highly accessible and practical manner, The Chief Data Officer’s Playbook, Second Edition brings the most up-to-date guidance to CDO’s who wish to understand their position better; to those aspiring to become CDO’s; to those who might be recruiting a CDO and to recruiters to understand an organisation seeking a CDO and the CDO landscape.

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Data Driven

Data Driven Business Transformation

Data Driven Business Transformation illustrates how to find the secrets to fast adaptation and disruptive origination hidden in your data and how to use them to capture market share. Digitalisation – or the Digital Revolution – was the first step in an evolving process of analysis and improvement in the operations and administration of commerce.

The popular author team of Caroline Carruthers and Peter Jackson, two global leaders in data transformation and education, pick up the conversation here at the next evolutionary step where data from these digital systems generates value, and really use data science to produce tangible results.

Optimise the performance of your company through data-driven processes by:
  • Following step-by-step guidance for transitioning your company in the real world to run on a data-enabled business model
  • Mastering a versatile set of data principles powerful enough to produce transformative results at any stage of a business’s development
  • Winning over the hearts of your employees and influencing a cultural shift to a data-enabled business
  • Reading first-hand stories from today’s thought leaders who are shaping data transformation at their companies
  • Enable your company’s data to lift profits with Data Driven Business Transformation.
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Chief Data Officer's Playbook​

The Chief Data Officer's Playbook

The new and rapidly expanding role of the Chief Data Officer (CDO) is of significant interest and relevance to organisations and data professionals internationally. Written by two practicing CDOs, this new book offers a jargon-free, practical guide to making better decisions based on data.

Content covered includes:
  • why does any organisation need a CDO?
  • the secret ingredients of the successful CDO
  • avoiding the hype cycle
  • building the CDO team
  • who leads the technology?
  • the CDO and data governance: enablement not red tape.

This book will offer key insight for CDOs looking to understand their position better, for aspiring CDOs and data officers looking at career progression, for those recruiting CDOs, and offers essential knowledge for anyone else operating in the current data environment wanting to develop strategies for not only surviving, but thriving in the future.

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