Data Professional Introspective: Your Organization Can’t Create an EDM Strategy
Some countries successfully create long-term strategic plans. For example, China’s first 100-year plan was aimed at the elimination of extreme…
Melanie Mecca
Data Professional Introspective: The Perennial Question
I’ve often encountered client staff, course students, and conference attendees who are grappling with the basic question: “What is the…
Data Professional Introspective: The Data Management Education Program (Part 2)
In my work with the EDM Council’s Data Management Capability Assessment Model (DCAM) 3.0 development group, we are adding a…
Data Professional Introspective: The Data Management Education Program
In my work with the EDM Council’s Data Management Capability Assessment Model (DCAM) 3.0 development group, we are adding a…
Data Professional Introspective: Demystifying Data Culture
The term “data culture” is frequently used to describe a normative view about how an organization functions (or more precisely,…
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…
Data Professional Introspective: Conducting a DCAM Assessment
My company led a Data Management Assessment for a government agency this spring, using the Data Management Capability Assessment Model…
Data Professional Introspective: Capability Maturity Model Comparison
For the Enterprise Data Management Council (EDMC), I recently concluded a detailed comparison and mapping of the DMM to the…
Data Professional Introspective: Data Provider Management – Part 3
In Part 1, we discussed the front end of the lifecycle – developing requirements for, and selecting data sources. In…
Data Professional Introspective: Data Provider Management – Part 2
Governance for Acquired Data / Selecting Sources Our next column in the series explores challenges with governing acquired data, and…