The Fractional CAO

The need for proper and clean data analytics in each organization is high, as the demand for extracting business value from data is ever-present. While that’s the case, it’s not as easy as it sounds.

A ‘translator’ is needed between the business executives and the technical experts. An experienced executive that flushes out the high-level questions about the problems at hand, but also issues direction for the data analysis required to find the missing answer.

Some organizations manage to accomplish this with business colleagues that possess an affinity for data, or a CIO with a heightened business background. But those scenarios are diamonds in the rough.

In most cases, the CIO is often asked to perform specialized, analytical tasks and conjure miracles with limited staff and experience. Instead of going through that exercise, why not just hire a fractionalized executive, with specific wisdom and skills for those tasks?

This is the ideal role of the Fractional Chief Analytics Officer, a harmonic bridge between the worlds of business value and data analytics. 

Joining us in Episode 1 is our esteemed guest, Kevin Marshbank, CEO of The Data Vault Shop.