CIOs must mind their own data confidence gap

“The teams may get pushed on to build the next set of things that they may not be ready to build,” he says. “This can result in failed initiatives, significantly delayed delivery, or burned-out teams.”

To fix this data quality confidence gap, companies should focus on being more transparent across their org charts, Palaniappan advises. Lower-level IT leaders can help CIOs and the C-suite understand their organization’s data readiness needs by creating detailed roadmaps for IT initiatives, including a timeline to fix data problems, he says.

“Take a ‘crawl, walk, run’ approach to drive this in the right direction, and put out a roadmap,” he says. “Look at your data maturity in order to execute your roadmap, and then slowly improve upon it.”