Data is Risky Business: Data Ethics and Governance in the Age of LLMs
In the last few months, we have seen the wave of Artificial Intelligence break on the shores of wide-scale business…
Data Columns
Data Centric Revolution: Is Knowledge Ontology the Missing Link?
You would think that after knocking around in semantics and knowledge graphs for over two decades I’d have had a…
Eyes on Data: An Approach to Measure Data ROI
Justifying any significant business investment is challenging. For data managers, the struggle is especially familiar. The difficulty is convincing decision…
Data Speaks for Itself: The Challenge of Data Consistency
Data quality management (DQM) has advanced considerably over the years. The full extent of the problem was first recognized during…
A Step Ahead: Data Fabric and Data Mesh – Similarities and Differences
The terms Data Mesh and Data Fabric have been used extensively as data management solutions in conversations these days, and…
The Art of Lean Governance: Achieving Enterprise Data Awareness
Achieving Enterprise Data Awareness is a natural maturity progression within the governance domain. At this stage, companies rightly see Data…
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 Value Chain: EDM Block Framework – Levels 5 & 6
We have heard a lot in the news lately about cost cutting, operational reductions, and the dreaded news of layoffs.…
All in the Data: Empower Stewards with a Data Governance Toolkit – Part 2
In part one of this column, I wrote about how organizations engage their data stewards as part of their formal…
The Book Look: Technical Writing for Quality
Why would Technics Publications publish a book outside its specialty of data management? We published Graham Witt’s Technical Writing for…