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- there's a whole swag of newly "baked" CxO titles we're still coming to grips with.. too many CxO titles now to make sense of ;-)

- I think it's fair to say that everything starts from the CEO down.. any organisation that wants to see real change driven by data and cognative apps needs the blessing of the CEO first..

Any C-level exec that fosters a shared, enterprise-wide responsibility for data-driven analytics

- Shadow IT showed us that you don't need a CIO to try new things, but most of the time the CIO ended up having to clean up the mess ;-)

@dez_blanchfield Yes, it starts with the CEO

CMO (Marketing) is a big one, and the CISO (Information Security) needs to be in the driver's seat also. The CDO (Data) and CAO (Analytics) help design & develop the resources (people, technologies, data sources) that are need across all C-level functions

- one thing I try to get in place as quickly as possible is a C-suite vocabulary, a common basic language so they are all speaking the same language and with the same vocabulary, about data et al..

Frankly these things start in the CMO office. In better companies they expand to the C[I/T/D]O and CFO offices.

any disruption is evident in organizations only when it is enterprise - wide. For data driven mindset it has to be a top down approach with buy in from all stakeholders

@craigmullins - CIO's are a curious mix now, too many CIO's are coming from an MBA pedigree and not a technology background, and that comes with too many fundamental issues..

@dez_blanchfield or create one ;-)

#CIO & #CMO are on top !!

CHRO is likely the most important in the next 5 yrs. Talent is the last variable in the equation we've been optimizing for 25 yrs.

Thank you @dez_blanchfield -- yes, we must be talking the same language or we go nowhere. I recall my first conversation with C-level 15 years ago about Data (Information) Science -- they thought I was talking about the printers (Information Technology!)

- CDO's are often not as strong a champion as they should be either as they are often strong in data and tech, but often are poor communicators

@dez_blanchfield IMO hard to do, two different languages, that is why WE are liaisons to C suite and IT

@dez_blanchfield CIO is still a turnstile position in many orgs. Hard to find a 10 year CIO vet at a single org

- one of my first ports of call in a new client is the CRO as well as of then the "buck stops" with the CRO when it comes to data, governance, compliance, risk, all CROads lead to data ;-)

Data-driven digital marketing is table stakes in every industry, hence the CMO is in forefront. But in terms of fresh disruption, my sense is C-level execs responsible for product dev/R&D are driving. Cognitive IoT embedded in every product.

The CDO cannot be a strong champion unless the top-level executive (CEO or Board of Directors) establishes the CDO's authority, seniority, and leadership role

CMO are forced to lead with data

@KirkDBorne - indeed, in fact if you can engage the MarComms team(s) in anything you're trying to drive in the form of change or transformation, you'll find they are very keen to help and support you, and they are communications gods!

@KirkDBorne it was not long ago that I was lectured on "stewardship" by the leader of an organization that did ad-hoc schema/data changes on Oracle in production. Every time their system goes down, I know why.

- 2 mins to go, feels like a bloody basket ball game, someone stop the clock ;-)

FINAL MINUTE - get your final comments here

I love the role of "cognitive" everywhere in organizations, but many leaders don't understand it well enough to buy into it.

@jameskobielus On the same page

CEO and the soon to be CDO

where there is now a CDO, you have a CIO who is the Chief Infrastructure Officer. Separating the roles is a mixed blessing.

Can't wait for WoW World of Watson

@JustinSaadein - CMO's should be driven by data today, MarTech / AdTech is where their truth is derived from ;-)

How many C-lvl execs have we named here? To the point made by @dez_blanchfield at the top!

@acoliver Bingo! That would be a good time to talk about schema-on-read versus schema-on-write approaches to Big Data collections.

@ankita_a19 - we have to be careful not to throw the term "disruption" around like it's a magical fairy dust that makes things happen "just because we say it" ;-)

We have 2 more minutes - please chime in with your final thoughts

It should be the CEO, but in my experience it is CMO and CIO most often.

CEO, CIO, CTO, CISO, CDO, CMO, CRO, CFO... that is a lot of chiefs!

@KirkDBorne I tried...that's how I ended up being lectured on stewardship :-)

@dez_blanchfield Exactly!!

@acoliver - I disagree, all of this needs to start with the CEO, it needs to flow down through the board room to each silo as it were, and be propogated top down..

I am HUUUUUUUGE fan of the CMO and data-driven marketing, customer experience, personalization, loyalty,..

@ankita_a19 - but if you are smart, you can put some Reverse Mentoring in place with junior staff showing senior staff "how they do it with their own tools" to "think different" ;-)

Leadership Analytics on top, please... https://twitter.com/...

cognitive is just another tech lever. Make sure you're leveraging your best, and know what your definition of "best" is. It's a CHRO problem, actually.

Thanks @furrier for adding 3 more minutes ... come on folks , last 3 minutes!!

@KirkDBorne - what we need is a "lingua franka" for data / data science / big data, let's write an eBook on this ;-) I'm up for it !!

@dez_blanchfield but in practice it starts in the CMO office. If the CEO picks it up and pushes it throughout it is better but the CMO starts the fire.

@CSurdak - CHRO ??

@KirkDBorne - life will get interesting when we see all apps have the likes of Siri built in by default ;-)

The next wave in data leadership, and we're seeing the inception, is the MBA + tech cert hybrid

An technology/data evangelist who allows developers, engineers, and data scientists and balances the need to build functionality from the bottom up with the demand for features from users and clients

@craigmullins CFO must the last one!! he wants to cut the cost all the time :)

@dez_blanchfield You're on! eBook here we come......

@craigmullins - important to have the head wag the tail ;-)

Final minute - your closing comments?

Another insightful conversation today - superb chat and host of influencefrs

An technology/data evangelist who allows developers, engineers, and data scientists to work together and balances the need to build functionality from the bottom up with the demand for features from users and clients