Can You Have Both an Offensive vs. Defensive Data Strategy?
It’s widely accepted that limited time and resources force organizations to make trade-offs between offense and defense when implementing their…
Data Education
Metadata-Driven Data Warehouses are Ideal
A metadata-driven data warehouse (MDW) offers a modern approach that is designed to make EDW development much more simplified and faster. It makes use of metadata (data…
Machine Learning Factors for Project Managers
Machine learning model…. Cloud deployment strategies…. BANG ZOOM WOW!! OK now that I have your attention, let’s talk shop! Deploying…
Practical Points from the DGPO: An Introduction to Information Risk Management
There is an ever-increasing awareness of concerns about data privacy, corporate data breaches, increasing demands for regulatory compliance. There are…
Using Data and Technology to Increase Employee Productivity
Any successful business knows that high levels of employee productivity is key to ultimate long-term success. Productive employees keep up…
Data Professional Introspective: What Good Looks Like – Part 2
This column is next in the series of how organizations achieve and sustain significant improvements in fundamental data management disciplines…
A Data Governance Self-Assessment Test
The purpose of this article is to provide a model to conduct a self-assessment of your organization’s data environment when…
What is a Data Catalog? Value, Benefits and Features
No matter where data comes from, becoming data-driven depends on every member of your organization being able to find, access,…
Data is Risky Business: The Next Normal
Taking Stock A year ago, organisations of all sizes around the world were catapulted into a cycle of digital and…
Data’s Gender Gap: Gender and Infrastructure
Perhaps the most commonly shared and immediately visible example of gender inequity in public spaces is restroom lines. It seems…