An increasingly common approach to enterprise-level analytics is to establish a chief data and analytics officer (alternatively called a chief data officer or chief analytics officer). The CDAO is a senior executive (often reporting directly to the COO, CMO, or CIO) While this is a relatively new role, Gartner estimates that there are over a thousand CDAOs today; it expects 90 percent of the world’s largest organizations will have one by 2019.
