Chief data officer to ICT information and knowledge manager
A chief data officer already meets 59% of what the ICT information and knowledge manager role asks for. The move turns on 9 required skills not yet in the profile.
49.2/ 100
1 How much of what an ICT information and knowledge manager is expected to do is already part of a chief data officer’s work. Directional: the figure for the reverse move differs, because moving into a speciality is not the same problem as moving out of one. 2 Every skill the ICT information and knowledge manager role is recorded as needing, required and optional together. What these numbers mean.
Why this move works
An ICT information and knowledge manager role treats 17 of its required skills as things a chief data officer already does. You would walk in with these on day one.
- business intelligence
- business processes
- data mining
- data models
- data storage
- decision support systems
What stands in the way is 9 required skills the profile does not yet cover. Table 3 groups them; Table 4 says which to take first.
Table 2 · What you already bring
Of the 22 skills that carry over, these are the ones fewest other occupations ask for. An ICT information and knowledge manager role needs them, and most people applying for one will not have them already. This is the part of a chief data officer background worth leading with.
- already held manage ICT data architecture communication, collaboration and creativity
- already held online analytical processing information and communication technologies (icts)
- already held manage business knowledge management skills
- already held information categorisation social sciences, journalism and information
- already held decision support systems information and communication technologies (icts)
- already held utilise decision support system working with computers
All 22 carried skills, including the 17 the ICT information and knowledge manager role treats as required.
Table 3 · What you may need to learn
The 20 missing skills fall into 6 areas of the ESCO skill hierarchy, numbered in the order worth working in. Areas carrying the most required skills come first, and inside each one the required skills sit above the optional ones. Nothing here is a verdict on you: it is a list of what this particular job asks for that your current one does not.
- still to learn create data models required
- still to learn manage data collection systems required
- still to learn analyse the context of an organisation required
- still to learn interpret current data required
- still to learn manage information sources required
- still to learn structure information required
- optional, not held keep up with the latest information systems solutions optional
- optional, not held manage cloud data and storage optional
- optional, not held manage information access aids optional
- still to learn migrate existing data required
- optional, not held implement ICT security policies optional
- optional, not held implement data warehousing techniques optional
- optional, not held perform data mining optional
- still to learn assess informational needs required
- optional, not held design information system optional
- optional, not held interact with users to gather requirements optional
- still to learn attack vectors required
- optional, not held data protection optional
- optional, not held ensure information privacy optional
- optional, not held assess ICT knowledge optional
Table 4 · Where to start
The 3 entries an ICT information and knowledge manager role is least likely to hire without. The ordering is computed from the skill data, not from what pays.
- 01 assess informational needs practise this
- 02 attack vectors study this
- 03 create data models practise this
Each entry opens a course search for that skill. Career Overlap earns nothing from these links.
Appendix · The rest of the record
All 22 skills that carry over
- already held business intelligence knowledge
- already held business processes knowledge
- already held data mining knowledge
- already held data models knowledge
- already held data storage knowledge
- already held decision support systems knowledge
- already held define technology strategy skill
- already held deliver visual presentation of data skill
- already held information architecture knowledge
- already held information categorisation knowledge
- already held information extraction knowledge
- already held information security strategy knowledge
- already held information structure knowledge
- already held manage ICT data architecture skill
- already held manage business knowledge skill
- already held online analytical processing knowledge
- already held unstructured data knowledge
- already held coordinate technological activities skill
- already held data quality assessment knowledge
- already held information confidentiality knowledge
- already held use databases skill
- already held utilise decision support system skill
11 supplementary skills, helpful but not required
- optional, not held assess ICT knowledge optional
- optional, not held data protection optional
- optional, not held design information system optional
- optional, not held ensure information privacy optional
- optional, not held implement ICT security policies optional
- optional, not held implement data warehousing techniques optional
- optional, not held interact with users to gather requirements optional
- optional, not held keep up with the latest information systems solutions optional
- optional, not held manage cloud data and storage optional
- optional, not held manage information access aids optional
- optional, not held perform data mining optional
39 held skills the ICT information and knowledge manager role does not ask for
- not needed by the target role CA Datacom/DB knowledge
- not needed by the target role DB2 knowledge
- not needed by the target role Filemaker (database management systems) knowledge
- not needed by the target role IBM Informix knowledge
- not needed by the target role LDAP knowledge
- not needed by the target role LINQ knowledge
- not needed by the target role MDX knowledge
- not needed by the target role Microsoft Access knowledge
- not needed by the target role MySQL knowledge
- not needed by the target role N1QL knowledge
- not needed by the target role ObjectStore knowledge
- not needed by the target role OpenEdge Database knowledge
- not needed by the target role Oracle Relational Database knowledge
- not needed by the target role PostgreSQL knowledge
- not needed by the target role SPARQL knowledge
- not needed by the target role SQL Server knowledge
- not needed by the target role Teradata Database knowledge
- not needed by the target role XQuery knowledge
- not needed by the target role apply change management skill
- not needed by the target role apply information security policies skill
- not needed by the target role cloud technologies knowledge
- not needed by the target role data engineering knowledge
- not needed by the target role data ethics knowledge
- not needed by the target role data science knowledge
- not needed by the target role database knowledge
- not needed by the target role database development tools knowledge
- not needed by the target role database management systems knowledge
- not needed by the target role define data quality criteria skill
- not needed by the target role develop information security strategy skill
- not needed by the target role image recognition knowledge
- not needed by the target role implement ICT risk management skill
- not needed by the target role integrate ICT data skill
- not needed by the target role make data-driven decisions skill
- not needed by the target role manage ICT data classification skill
- not needed by the target role manage data skill
- not needed by the target role query languages knowledge
- not needed by the target role report analysis results skill
- not needed by the target role resource description framework query language knowledge
- not needed by the target role visual presentation techniques knowledge
2 gaps that are knowledge rather than practice
Knowledge gaps usually close through study. Practical skill gaps usually need something you can point at.
- still to learn attack vectors required
- optional, not held data protection optional
Common questions about this move
Can a chief data officer become an ICT information and knowledge manager?
Yes, and it is a moderate move. A chief data officer already covers 59% of what an ICT information and knowledge manager is expected to do: 22 skills carry over, 17 of which the ICT information and knowledge manager role treats as required.
What skills does a chief data officer need to become an ICT information and knowledge manager?
9 required skills are missing, plus 11 optional ones. They fall into 6 areas of the ESCO skill hierarchy, led by information skills. The single most important is assess informational needs.
How hard is the move from chief data officer to ICT information and knowledge manager?
Its learning distance is 49.2 out of 100, which is the moderate band. That accounts for both how much is missing and how specialised those skills are.
How this record was compiled
Both occupations are taken from ESCO, which lists the skills and knowledge each occupation is expected to have and marks every one required or optional. Nothing here is a prediction about hiring, and nothing here knows that a particular employer wants a particular certificate. Treat Table 3 as a starting point for your own research rather than a syllabus. The full method states what these figures can and cannot tell you.