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Leadership Vision for 2018: Data and Analytics Leader
This presentation is a critical tool to ensure corporate and personal success. It highlights major trends
affecting the D&A role and major related challenges, and provides practical advice and best practices to
overcome these challenges and successfully deliver the expected business outcomes.
This scenario is part of a series of seven covering the whole set of Gartner IT leaders, namely:
• "Leadership Vision for 2018: Application Leader"
• "Leadership Vision for 2018: Enterprise Architecture and Technology Innovation Leader"
• "Leadership Vision for 2018: Infrastructure and Operations Leaders"
• "Leadership Vision for 2018: Program and Portfolio Management Leader"
• "Leadership Vision for 2018: Security and Risk Leaders"
• "Leadership Vision for 2018: Sourcing and Vendor Management Leader"
D&A leaders can leverage this research and the PowerPoint presentation to understand and act on:
• What data and analytics leadership means in the digital age
• The major trends and challenges affecting the data and analytics leader
• How leading organizations deliver the highest value
• Actions and practices that a data and analytics leader and team should implement next
D&A leaders who are Gartner clients can leverage such research material, or part of it, to raise the
quality of their own teams, better influence the other IT leaders, and communicate the value of the data
and analytics organization to the higher ranks of the organization and other stakeholders.
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What are the major trends and challenges affecting the D&A leader?
This section contextualizes D&A against major Gartner themes: digital business; CIO agenda; top 10
strategic technologies; the continuing increase in the volume, variety and velocity of data, with its
attendant technology disruptions; and finally, the bigger picture and context of the abundance of themes
reflected in the enterprise information management (EIM) Hype Cycle. The trajectory is from the high-
level Gartner themes, to the more specific D&A groupwide ones. The Hype Cycle with its abundant
technologies gives the D&A leader a lot to choose from, but the final slide of the section emphasizes the
paradox of a scarcity of skills to capitalize on that abundance. Juxtaposing these two carries on the
theme of "scarcity and abundance" that ties the story together.
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CIOs and their business peers will have to do a huge amount of reskilling and expect a considerable
overhaul of the workforce. To help clients meet this challenge, we ran the survey to learn what the
leading enterprises do today to manage their talent and organization. The seven findings reveal practical
steps that CIOs can take to ensure their organizations' talent keeps up with the changing nature of
business. Three-quarters of IT and business executives expect that their organizations' skills will change
radically over the next 10 years. In April 2016, a Gartner survey proposed that "in 10 years, the skills
and knowledge in your organization will have little resemblance to the skills and knowledge you have
today." Some 77% of the 149 IT and business executives from across the globe who responded to the
survey agreed. Even if the anticipated changes took twice as long or were half as deep, the impact on
talent, skills and organizations would be acute.
One of the most striking findings in that survey is the difference between digital business leaders such
as Amazon and Alibaba is their talent and skills priorities. Leaders consider skills in data science and
big data — in other words, data and analytics skills — to be their No. 1 priority. Mainstream
organizations rate this category 10th. The importance of prioritizing the data and analytics skills needed
to be a digital business leader cannot be overemphasized.
Recommended Reading and Supporting Evidence
"Survey Analysis: What Leading Enterprises Do Differently With Talent and Organization"
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Digital business is an overarching theme that covers how the blurring of the physical and virtual worlds
is transforming business designs, industries, markets and organizations. The continuing digital business
evolution exploits new digital models to align more closely the physical and digital worlds for
employees, partners and customers. Technology will be embedded in everything in the digital business
of the future. Rich digital services will be delivered to everything, and intelligence will be embedded in
everything behind the scenes. We call this mesh of people, devices, content and services the "intelligent
digital mesh." It's enabled by digital models, business platforms and a rich intelligent set of services to
support digital business. IT leaders must respond to the disruptive technology trends enabling this
future.
Our top 10 strategic technology trends include three groupings of complementary trends that are
mutually reinforcing, with amplified disruptive characteristics:
• The intelligent theme builds on the way in which data science and programming approaches are
evolving to include AI and advanced machine learning.
• The digital theme focuses on blending the digital and physical worlds to create an immersive,
digitally enhanced environment. In the digitally enhanced mesh, the digital world is an
increasingly detailed representation of the physical world.
• The mesh theme refers to exploiting connections between an expanding set of people and
businesses, as well as devices, content and services, to deliver digital business outcomes.
Recommended Reading and Supporting Evidence
"Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2018"
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Note: The top 10 strategic technology trends report is updated annually, in October.
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When it comes to top technology investments, business intelligence (BI) and analytics persist in the top
spot year after year across all performance levels. Top performers are more likely to mention BI and
analytics than the other two groups, but it is clear that this capability is seen by all three as the key that
unlocks the digital value door.
Advanced analytics (that is, predictive and prescriptive) are fundamental to customer, citizen and user
engagement. Analytics underpin the mediation and value exchange occurring in digital ecosystems.
Physical products are being extended through their digital twins, from which new services and sources
of revenue are channeled. The exponential growth of data, especially in Internet of Things (IoT)
implementations, leads to distributed and embedded analytics, and to accompanying capabilities such as
logical data warehouses and in-memory computing. In terms of other technology investments, there are
some interesting data points. For all but the top performers, ERP remains a large investment, as
highlighted in the figure. Why the difference? Unlike BI and analytics or other top-performer
investments, top performers have shifted investment away from traditional ERP. Top performers have
likely invested enough to modernize ERP (which really may mean they've taken it off-premises and
minimized their ERP legacy debt), and they have shifted that investment to higher-return activities. One
final and crucial point: Analytics are valuable only if the data they show can be trusted. So although it is
never a "top focus," D&A leaders must recognize the critical importance of data management in
delivering the insight that leaders expect with advanced analytics.
Recommended Reading and Supporting Evidence
"The 2017 CIO Agenda: Seize the Digital Ecosystem Opportunity"
"Build Alliances to Thrive in Business Ecosystems"
"Building the Digital Platform: The 2016 CIO Agenda"
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The goal of EIM is to exploit the data and analytics that has the greatest impact on improving business
outcomes. Therefore, strong EIM programs will be transformational in nature, and it will take several
years before most of the industry has achieved the necessary level of maturity. Our annual EIM Hype
Cycle documents and defines all of the important trends in the data and analytics space. But as you can
see, there is an abundance of trends and technologies to choose from. We recommend that you use the
Hype Cycle to assess your current projects and plan additional ones for your own strategic planning
horizon. You can customize a version of this or any other Hype Cycle using the My Hype Cycle cited
here. As always, note that any dated document will be updated on an annual basis, so make sure you
check the dates to ensure that you have the most current version.
Recommended Reading and Supporting Evidence
"Hype Cycle for Enterprise Information Management, 2017"
"Toolkit: My Hype Cycle, 2016"
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The next 25 years will not look anything like the past 25 years. The story of IT so far has been the story
of the underlying technology and software infrastructure that supports it. We have lived by Moore's
Law, Kryder's Law and Metcalfe's Law: Computing power, network growth and storage efficiency have
continued to push technological advancement. Moore himself stated (in April 2005) that we have only
another 10 to 20 years until we reach a fundamental limit. As for Kryder's Law (the predicted
exponential increase of data storage capacity), it has allowed the storage of ever-greater amounts of
data. In some ways, this development has done more harm than good, encouraging a mentality that
allows ever more data to be stored without a real plan as to how to organize or use it. Metcalfe's Law
(the value of a telecom network is proportional to the square of the number of connected users of the
system [n2]) felt intuitively right and has recently been verified mathematically. Another fundamental
problem arises, however, when considering network effects and human beings. Clay Shirky summed it
up nicely in "A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy," in which he states, "… finally, you have to find a way
to spare the group from scale. Scale alone kills conversations, because conversations require dense two-
way conversations. In conversational contexts, Metcalfe's law is a drag." We are experiencing this as the
old challenge of information overload, which although a rather "tired" term, it is still an unsolved
problem. We have not recognized that the underlying problem is a lack of models, analytics and skills to
deal with such overwhelming volume and detail. An abundance of information is valuable only if it can
be verified, analyzed and presented on a human scale. Unless we do that, our decisions will degrade.
The past 25 years belonged to computer scientists, information scientists, network designers and other
specialists. The next 25 years will require new strategies, tools, models, roles and skills. Many of the
practitioners and professionals will not be technical specialists, but business-focused generalists using
data as a tool and an enabler. The new users and practitioners, who take the fundamentals for granted,
are joining the older generation of data management and BI; however, we find these two groups lack a
shared understanding, a common language, and a set of approaches to data and information
management that are modern, integrated, cohesive and agile.
Strategic Planning Assumption: By 2018, more than half of large organizations globally will compete
using advanced analytics and proprietary algorithms, causing the disruption of entire industries.
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What actions and practices should a D&A leader and team implement next?
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Early adopters of the CDO role and the office of the CDO are pioneering a new organizational function
alongside IT, business operations, HR and finance. Data and analytics leaders can use our findings to
successfully drive digital business transformation in their enterprises. Although the office of the CDO is
a relatively new function, many respondents reported that they had been successful in establishing the
role, and it was generally perceived as positive. Of course, as with any new endeavor, there have already
been some high-profile CDO failures. These failures had more to do with the individual companies and
how the inaugural CDO chose to focus his or her attention. In most cases, the office of the CDO was not
abolished, but the CDO was replaced. This is only natural. Creating a new function that is working on
difficult problems, coupled with a scarcity of expertise, is bound to be difficult. It takes courage to be an
innovator, and those who understand how innovation works must accept that many of their efforts will
"fail." Failure is a better teacher than success, and we fully expect that most will succeed in time on the
institutional level if not the personal level.
Recommended Reading and Supporting Evidence
"Survey Analysis: Second Gartner CDO Survey — The State of the Office of the CDO"
"Toolkit: Chief Data Officer Job Description"
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CDOs or their equivalents must create an actual or virtual organization that spans three main disciplines:
data and analytics expertise, data management maturity, and change leadership. Data management exists
to support analytics, and without data quality, data integration and related disciplines, analytics insight
cannot be fully trusted. Analytics programs must mature from traditional backward-looking historical
reporting to prescriptive and proscriptive future-oriented ones. Machine learning and data science skills
are in high demand, as sophisticated modeling and prediction become more mainstream. But a little-
recognized set of capabilities is also necessary. Data-driven culture and citizen data stewards and
scientists will necessitate a great deal of change. Business functions will now share responsibility for
data management — especially data quality — with their IT counterparts. Similarly, business leaders
who want to use data to make better decisions will need to understand and use self-service analytics
tools, which is the shortest route to insight. Gone are the days when relatively slow-moving business
processes were tracked and reported on weekly, monthly or quarterly. Real-time analytics — responding
to fast-moving and fast-changing conditions — will require that those who are running the process can
also obtain their own data and analytics insight in real time or at least near real time. All of that means a
shift in mindset, who does what and acquiring new skills. This is organizational change on a massive
scale, and that sort of change requires D&A leaders to understand the new science around performance,
change and change management.
Recommended Reading and Supporting Evidence
"Gartner's Enterprise Information Management Maturity Model"
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There is an emerging spectrum of role. There are many new roles, and many of these will be hybrid
business-and-IT blends. These include data modelers, information architects, subject matter experts,
data broker managers, information stewards, data policy owners, process owners and analysts,
statisticians, information and data scientists, even personnel from the legal and compliance departments,
and of course CDOs and CD(a)Os. More than three in four leading-edge organizations are already aware
that the skills and knowledge they have today will bear little resemblance to the skills and knowledge
they will need to survive and prosper in 10 years' time.
Recommended Reading and Supporting Evidence
"Must-Have Roles for Data and Analytics, 2017"
"Survey Analysis: What Leading Enterprises Do Differently With Talent and Organization"
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