Posts tagged: founder
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- The First 90 Days in a Data Leadership Role: What Actually Matters
Ryan Desmond An excerpt from The Data Leader's Handbook. The first 90 days are not about building things. They are about understanding what exists, who owns it, and what it would cost to fix it.
- What Fractional Data Leadership Actually Is (And When It Makes Sense) Ryan Desmond
Fractional CDO is not a euphemism for junior consulting. It is senior data leadership without the full-time overhead. Here is what it means in practice and when it is the right answer.
- Why I Wrote the Handbook I Couldn't Find Ryan Desmond
The books you find when you're knee-deep in flood water fall into two categories. Neither one helps you when the C-suite is standing between you and the problem.
- Why I Built This: The Procurement Data Problem Nobody Wants to Solve Ryan Desmond
A federal data architect's perspective on how industrial companies manage — and mismanage — procurement data. The pattern repeats. The cost is real. RDMIS exists because the gap needed a name.