A recent survey of federal chief data officers indicates that they need more clarity from the Office of Management and Budget. Federal chief data officers report that they have completed or are making ...

To ensure chief data officers are more than data cheerleaders, agencies must empower them to be the strategic leaders we need to make an impact. Management The Federal Data Strategy and the Evidence ...

Chief data officers have been instrumental in getting agencies to adopt data strategies, but their data governance authority is ambiguous. Critical gaps in guidance persist for chief data officers, ...

Rep. Derek Kilmer, sponsor of the OPEN Government Data Act. (ScienceDemocrats/Flickr) The OPEN Government Data Act, which President Trump signed in to law in January as part of the Foundations for ...

There’s palpable buzz around artificial intelligence. It promises to transform the way that people and organizations operate. For government agencies, AI models can offer a wide range of solutions – ...

The last few years have been challenging for fixed income investors. At first, interest rates were below historical averages, creating a difficult search for yield. Then the environment changed ...

As governments grapple with how to achieve data-driven efficiency improvements, often in the middle of the most successful efforts is a job that barely existed as a job a few years ago: the chief data ...

Eighty-eight percent of federal agencies with a Chief Data Officer (CDO) said they are making a positive impact. But 93 percent of those without a CDO say having one would positively impact the agency ...

Collateralized debt obligations, or CDOs, have been a hot product with many big investors. Yet their complexity has put off even some of the largest institutional investors. The California Public ...

Structured finance deals of a type last seen before the financial crisis are set to come back in 2013, according to market experts, as a nascent credit boom, coupled with low interest rates, spurs ...

When we think of tech disruption, we often think about how tech impacts different industries—the way Uber shook up the taxi marketplace and Airbnb shook up the hotel industry. But the truth is digital ...