IDG Contributor Network: Why Chief Data Officers need more power

Airbnb’s fifth employee was a data scientist. Today, it has its own data catalog, where 45% of its 3,100 employees regularly engage. Airbnb was built from the ground up to take advantage of data, just like Warby Parker, Facebook, Google and Amazon.But traditional corporations were not built this way. On this front, they’re lagging behind the companies that have, in the last few years, completely disrupted industries. There is no “silver bullet” fix. Instead, these compan