Chief data officers (CDO) in the public sector are more likely to possess governance activity capabilities (77%) instead of analytics (63%) or data literacy (57%), according to a research entitled, “Driving Data in the APAC Public Sector: Balancing Governance and Innovation”.
CDO’s prioritize strategizing, maturity assessments, inventories, and governance boards instead of focusing more on deploying analytics tools, decommissioning old technologies or publishing open datasets and other innovation-focused initiatives. This implies how governance shapes strategy in public sector organisations by allocating more resources to it more than capability.
Additionally, over 90% of organizations reported having governance frameworks, compared to 38% in 2021, demonstrating a significant increase in the drive to strengthen compliance practices in recent years.
“Critically, they are increasingly focused on addressing risk rather than seizing on opportunities when it comes to data. To overcome this cautiousness, CDOs need to realise and maximize the return on data and analytics,” Geoff Thomas, senior vice president, APAC, Qlik.
Commissioned by Qlik and conducted independently by Omdia, the study presents the findings of a survey of 326 senior data executives within the public sectors of Australia, India, and Singapore.
