Chief data officers have been instrumental in getting agencies to adopt data strategies, but their data governance authority is ambiguous. Critical gaps in guidance persist for chief data officers, ...

Rep. Derek Kilmer, sponsor of the OPEN Government Data Act. (ScienceDemocrats/Flickr) The OPEN Government Data Act, which President Trump signed in to law in January as part of the Foundations for ...

There’s palpable buzz around artificial intelligence. It promises to transform the way that people and organizations operate. For government agencies, AI models can offer a wide range of solutions – ...

As governments grapple with how to achieve data-driven efficiency improvements, often in the middle of the most successful efforts is a job that barely existed as a job a few years ago: the chief data ...

If ProPublica's fine post-mortem on how Wall Street lost billions of dollars on collateralized debt obligations clarifies anything, it's this: Bernie Madoff was an amateur. Because the ruse big banks ...

The Fast Company Executive Board is a private, fee-based network of influential leaders, experts, executives, and entrepreneurs who share their insights with our audience. Most CDOs are aware of the ...

JHS junior, Amber Harrington, shadows groomers, Emily Haskins and Dakota Thompson, at Puppy Love Pet Grooming on E. 2nd Street while grooming Reagan, the dog through the CDOS Program at JHS. She is ...

You have probably heard a lot about derivatives over the past two years. Derivatives are largely responsible for the fall of banking giants Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers and Washington Mutual.

Listener Eduardo Bortoni asks two good questions. The first has to do with CDOs: 1) Why is it still difficult to price CDOs? Aren't they supposed to be generating cash every month due to the income ...