Every Data Picture Tells a Story
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Ask the Data Governance Coach: A Lean Approach to Data Governance
As I may have mentioned in the past, getting a data governance initiative started can be extremely challenging. This is particularly true if you work in an …
Tales & Tips from the Trenches: Agile Data Summary
Welcome to the wrap-up column in our series on applying Agile techniques to data projects in our Tales and Tips from the Trenches Column. The column’s goal …
All in the Data: Achieving “Good Data” – Pt 2 Improving Data Production
Many organizations focus their data governance programs on improving their data for analytical purposes. A problem they are running into is that their data has …
Data-Driven or In Disguise
Walk into any boardroom or executive committee meeting, and there’s a good chance you’ll hear someone talking about data. And it’s no wonder. Data— and …
Data Culture Through Continuous Improvement
Industry leading organizations recognize and manage data as a strategic asset. By ensuring high data quality, they are able to rely upon data for critical …
Use Data to Improve Your Business
The term “big data” was coined in the early 2000s, used to describe the massive wealth of information relating to human behavior that had been carefully …
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 …
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 …