Ultimate Kronos Group (UKG)

Chief data officers face several challenges, including new demands from AI, but they must also sell the value of their jobs to coworkers unsure what CDOs do.

As an era, ‘Big Data’ may be over, but its underlying value (and tensions) live on, even as organizations seek to make the leap to an AI future.

After customers and user groups that adopted S/4HANA early accused SAP of bait-and-switch tactics, CIO editor-in-chief in Germany Martin Bayer recently sat with Christian Klein, CEO of the multinational software company, to clear the air on cloud reassurance, using gen AI as a migration accelerant, and positive growth for the future.

To succeed with people-centric planning, leaders need to take a different approach to governance. Leaders must produce key metrics and offer the autonomy to determine the best way to achieve those metrics.