The Art of Lean Governance: Elevating Reconciliation to Primary Control for Data Risk
For decades, data governance in regulated financial institutions has rested on a familiar foundation. Policies are documented, standards are defined,…
Steve Zagoudis
The Art of Lean Governance: The Cybernetics of Data Quality
In the age of algorithmic intelligence, data is no longer just an asset — it is a self-regulating system whose…
The Art of Lean Governance: Why Stakeholders Are the Key to Data Reconciliation
In an era where data drives trillion-dollar market decisions, one truth separates industry leaders from the rest: Data reconciliation is only…
The Art of Lean Governance: Future-Proofing During Times of High Uncertainty
Current economic forecasts predict that the odds of a global recession will increase in 2025 due to various factors. A…
The Art of Lean Governance: Moving Beyond Governance Buzzwords and Bling
This column will expand on a Systems Thinking approach to Data Governance and focus on process control. The vendors of…
The Art of Lean Governance: A Systems Thinking Approach to Data Governance
A systems thinking approach to process control and optimization demands continual data quality feedback loops. Moving the quality checks upstream…
The Art of Lean Governance: The Integrated Governance Framework
In this column, we explore the basic foundations of an integrated governance framework, defined as the correct blending of governance…
The Art of Lean Governance: What We Can Learn from HAZMAT Professionals
The collapse of the Francis Scott Key bridge on March 26, 2024, was a tragic loss of life and disruption…
The Art of Lean Governance: Addressing the Elephant in the Room
Hands down one of the most frequent observations when walking the data factory at different clients is the excessive use…
The Art of Lean Governance: Walking the Data Factory
The concept of “walking the data factory” drew a great deal of interest during our recent DGPO webinar on data…