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Departments responsible for customer data in companies in the United States 2017

Leading departments responsible for customer data ownership in companies in the United States as of November 2017
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The data displays the leading departments responsible for customer data ownership in companies in the U.S. as of November 2017. During the survey it was found that the majority if U.S. companies relied on IT for data ownership, followed by 31% who said that their data was with their CEO.

IT department 51
Chief Executive Officer (CEO) 31
Chief Information Officer (CIO) 20
Distributed across departements 18
Data governance organization 14
Chief Data Officer (CDO) 10
There is no data owner 5