The Politics Of Data Governance: What We Can Learn From 2016 Presidential Elections?
The world is done watching 2016 US Presidential elections and many are going through withdrawal symptoms. Without passing a judgment…
Data Articles
The Ten (Database) Commandments
People are drawn to lists. Lists appear everywhere, from the Christian Bible to the weekly Top Forty countdown to the…
Rationale for Enterprise Governance
The following is an extract from Chapter 2 of Michael M. Gorman’s new book Enterprise Governance Community of Interest Handbook…
How Enterprise-Level IT Professionals Can Be Agile
Many people mistakenly assume that enterprise-level activities, such as enterprise architecture or reuse engineering, need to be performed in a traditional and even…
An Open Letter to All Data Users
Management of Your Company Your Company Name Your Company’s Address Today’s Date Subject: Open Letter to All Data Users Dear…
Five Things for Data Governance Success
Working with his clients, the author has identified a set of practices that strongly align with success in the data…
Bad Data’s Impact on Decision-Making
Having been around the block, we data professionals have seen many cases of data which could be construed as “imaginative.” …
Comparing Approaches to Data Governance
Three approaches to implement data governance include 1) the Command and Control approach, 2) the Traditional approach, and 3) the…
Exploiting a Semantic Method
In this paper I wrote with Sylviane Cardey and Peter Greenfield we examine how a semantics based technique, MMS (Méta Modèle…
Today’s Crypto-Frankenstein
Haleigh Wright is the assistant to the publisher of The Data Administration Newsletter (TDAN.com). Introduction Recently, I attended the International…