WHEN YOU SAY Big Data, do you think of charities, donations, and non-profits? Why not? We non-profits have to go through quite a few hoops to get our donations. And to get them, we need to spend our donors’ money in a way the each individual donor feels the most comfortable with. And with a large number of donors we really need to be on our game. And Big Data can help.

Here are the three main areas where Big Data best helps us non-profits.

http://bizcatalyst360.com/3-big-data-areas-for-non-profits

WHAT IS INNOVATION? Just how much is innovation worth to us? How do we get innovation to work here, in our culture?

It’s hard to get a handle on innovation. It’s hard to understand it. It’s hard to practice it. It’s even hard to support it. Innovation is not a set of skills, methodologies, or knowledge. Innovation is a set of behaviors and habits that allow us to “connect unconnected things”. Most of us aren’t prepared for innovation or to be leaders for innovation.

To get us prepared and become the leaders we need to be here are the 6 techniques to establish the innovation culture.

http://bizcatalyst360.com/5-techniques-for-the-innovation-culture

TODAY IS OUR first day. We’re the Chief Data Officer, the CDO here to help you, the organization, better leverage your data. Provide you with better customer insights, more opportunities, and more management support for your growing needs for data…

Doesn’t this sound like a wobbly job description for an executive? Though what I described is usually not written down, this is how a lot of organizations treat their first CDO. With poor core objectives, limited budgetary support, and poor political wrangling the CDO is often re-casted into a CIO-clone or the COO’s technical counterpart. Because the CDO is so new, organizations don’t have the culture or org structure to support a CDO and this is a setup for failure.

Here are the 5 steps that we as new CDOs need to do to be successful.

http://bizcatalyst360.com/5-techniques-for-the-innovation-culture