About the Author

Doug Laney is vice president and distinguished analyst in the Chief Data Officer (CDO) research and advisory team at Gartner, Inc. Doug researches and advises clients on information monetization and valuation, open and syndicated data, analytics centers of excellence, data governance, and Big Data-based innovation. He is the author of Gartner’s enterprise information management maturity model, has compiled several hundred real-world examples of the “art of the possible” with data and analytics, edited and coauthored an eBook on Big Data for the Financial Times, and is a two-time recipient of Gartner’s annual thought leadership award.

Around the turn of the millennium, Doug originated the field of Infonomics, developing methods to quantify and harvest information’s economic value, and positing how to apply traditional asset management practices to information assets. He lectures at leading business schools and conferences on the topic, and his articles have appeared in Forbes, Wall Street Journal, and the Financial Times. Throughout his career Doug held leadership roles with global systems integrators and early-stage software companies, and has been a Gartner analyst for eleven years.

Doug lives outside Chicago with his wife and son where he bikes, cooks, plays competitive tennis and non-competitive golf, is a volunteer Junior Achievement instructor at a local grammar school, coaches area entrepreneurs, and sits on the University of Illinois Department of Accountancy advisory board.

You can follow Doug on Twitter at @doug_laney and on LinkedIn at linkedin.com/in/douglaney.