A Chief Data Officer (CDO) is a data management role responsible for managing the enterprise’s data assets. Responsibilities are: * Establishing an organizational data (management) strategy. * Aligning data-centric requirements with available IT and business resources. * Establishing data governance standards, policies and procedures. * Providing advice (and perhaps services) to the business for data-dependent initiatives, such as business analytics, Big Data, data quality, and data technologies. * Evangelizing the importance of good information management principles to internal and external business stakeholders. * Oversight of data usage in analytics and Business Intelligence.