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.

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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Anda Gansca is co-founder and CEO of Knotch, which proves content’s impact on business outcomes.

Monte Carlo is co-founder and CEO of Monte Carlo, a data reliability company.