Data Governance’s Role in Ensuring AI’s Future
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is no longer just a thing of science fiction. In fact, it has already become part and parcel of people’s everyday lives through …
Is Big Data the Scapegoat?
In the wake of the recent Facebook and Cambridge Analytica scandal, data and personal privacy matters have come to the forefront of consumer’s minds. When an …
MDM Data Quality Standards
In the previous post, we discussed the emerging role of standards and the business drivers that influence an organization’s approach to their adoption. In …
Data Professional Introspective: Accelerating Enterprise Data Quality
My recent columns have focused on actionable initiatives that can both deliver business value, providing a tangible achievement, and raise the profile of the …
Fix the “Data Situation”
What would you do with your data (i.e. what type of analytics would you run) if you had the data to support doing it and you had confidence in the quality of …
Data is Risky Business: Situational Modifiers and the Myth of “Data Governance Ethics”
In this column, I want to address two topics that have recently popped up that I believe are essential to an effective understanding of ethical information …
Business Glossaries and Metadata: Metadata Strategy and the Business Glossary
In this column I have discussed the significant concepts, processes, resources, and deliverables that can be maintained in a Business Glossary. But, I may have …
Applying Top-down, Big-Picture Models to Data Vault Part 2
Data Vaults have enormous potential to deliver value, but to do so, we’ve got to turn the spotlight off the technology. Sure, we absolutely need some …
Data Governance is a Hot Topic (Data Modeling Too)
Data governance is a hot topic lately. Companies are trying to devise and implement governance programs to provide some structure around how they manage and …
Collaborative Information Governance Framework
This is the first of three articles to introduce the Collaborative Information Governance Framework (CIGF)TM. This first article provides the genesis of the …