Paying Down Semantic Debt
In my last piece, “Where does semantic debt come from?,” I described the Semantic Debt Life-cycle. At a higher level, “semantic debt” is the …
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Practical Points from the DGPO: For Professionals, By Professionals
There has never been a better time to be a data governance professional. Why? Two words: Job. Security. Whether it is the high-profile data security stories in …
Data is Risky Business: Ethics at the Core of a Data-Driven World
There is a famous Dilbert cartoon from a few years ago in which Dogbert provides Dilbert’s company with advice on how they can generate revenue from the …
The Data-Centric Revolution: Data-Centric and Model Driven
Model Driven Development Model Driven seems to be enjoying a bit of an upsurge lately. Gartner has recently been hyping (is it fair to accuse the inventors …
Questions Metadata Can Answer
The world of information technology has “grown up” dramatically in the last twenty-five years – the term of my comparably short career. From the days of …
8 Ways to Discover Personal Data for GDPR
As many companies around the globe are struggling with how to meet the new GDPR requirement, we are all receiving a flurry of opt-in emails asking for …
Business Glossaries and Metadata: Using the Glossary to Drive Your Quality Strategy
I have recently received many challenging questions about how to use Data Governance processes, technology, and the Business Glossary to manage and present the …
Make an Impact: Data Team Building
Welcome to my refreshed TDAN.com column! We decided to align the title, Make an Impact, more closely with other Data Leadership projects I’m working on …
Is Your Senior Leadership Losing Interest?
An interesting topic came up in conversations I had with organizations twice this week. The topic was about “Senior Leadership is losing interest” and what …
The Value of Clean Customer Data
We all understand the importance of data. Since the inception of Big Data in the 90s through its breakthrough—via the power leveraged from Cloud …