Episode 2: Cara Dailey
Cara Dailey, Chief Data Officer at LPL Financial, considers herself a problem solver at her core. In this episode, she talks with Anda Gansca (Co-Founder and CEO, Knotch) and Barr Moses (Co-Founder and CEO, Monte Carlo) about how data is “a fire to run toward” — how an organization’s hairiest problems relate to data, the opportunities a Chief Data Officer has to make better decisions and measure the impact, and how to prioritize focus on three main goals.
In this episode…
- 2:45 – Cara is “obsessive” about problem solving.
- 7:00 – Do certain industries experience higher stakes when it comes to getting data right?
- 11:50 – What are the things that make driving data adoption difficult? How do you set goals?
- 16:50 – Encouraging decisions on data vs gut.
- 18:00 – Where are the biggest opportunities for Chief Data Officers?
- 23:30 – How do you decide what NOT to measure?
- 25:40 – Cara’s work within the startup community.
- 30:20 – What a Chief Data Officer should do in the first 90 days
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