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Hmm.. maybe I will apply.. I think the thing a Chief Digital Officer would do would be to map out each organizations data needs and mandate that their product
by sjg007 6y ago
Hmm.. maybe I will apply.. I think the thing a Chief Digital Officer would do would be to map out each organizations data needs and mandate that their product be provided via a SaaS interface to their customers and/or exportable into something like Snowflake or Palantir or maybe a UK provider. Interfaces are the first thing that Bezos mandated for AWS. The latter is probably more risky politically but maybe there's a path there. It's a "we are moving to the Cloud* approach". The APIs and the Snowflake style analysis will allow enterprising organizations to refactor if they want and maybe develop new applications without requiring data source team participation.
Frame it that way or another with the same goal, build out your own cloud team to manage the project and then maybe you'd find success.
- ionwake 6y agoWell said. I’m going to cut and paste this in my application.
- sjg007 6y agoSure, go ahead, but I would advise you to rephrase it in your own words. Otherwise you run the risk of rejection due to a few Google searches!! But.. none of this is special sauce, this is the playbook for every "scalable" organization. I would avoid the word "interoperability" though. That's verbiage from the last major IT/govt push.
- ionwake 6y agoI was mostly joking though I’ll consider applying for fun
- aahortwwy 6y agoWhat will you do when your "mandate" is ignored?
- sjg007 6y agoWhat if the world ends?
- aahortwwy 6y agoThere's no comparison. The challenge is these jobs is not setting the strategy. It's getting everyone involved to actually listen to you and follow through. Just because you have "chief" in your job title doesn't mean established bureaucrats will listen to you without question.