Have We Forgotten the Purpose of Technology in Business?
Fundamentally, the purpose of technology in business is to manage the treasure trove of data captured within sophisticated technological systems.…
Data Articles
Data Management is a Digital Transformation Foundation
Data Management is intrinsic to the change that Digital Transformation symbolizes. Comprising of hard facts about data from collection, unification,…
Your Next Data Skill is Stakeholder Empathy
The role of data people is often to interpret and communicate information. This can mean taking raw data and cleaning…
Data Modeling for Quality
In this article, I describe a method of modelling data so that it meets business requirements. Central to this method…
Ownership of Vocabulary vs. Ownership of Data
Can the responsibilities for vocabulary ownership and data ownership by business stakeholders be separate? Should they be? I have listened…
Perception Manipulation in Infographics
The purpose of data visualization is to facilitate the perception of information arrays and to identify patterns that are difficult…
Business Pace Contributes to Data Challenges
The increasing speed and pace of business certainly contributes to several data challenges (quality, timeliness, availability and, most important, usability…
Data Centralization in Marketing
Data analytics is the driving force behind marketing performance and customer relationships for many organizations across a wide variety of…
None Shall Pass! Are Your Database Standards Too Rigid?
Rigidly adhering to a standard, any standard, without being reasonable and using your ability to think through changing situations and circumstances…
How to Win New Business with External Data
Increasingly, external data (alternative data, public data, open data – call it what you want) is being called the “secret…