The Art of Lean Governance: Need for an Integrated Governance Framework
At a recent Data Governance conference, we had the opportunity to review several leading governance technology solutions. In their own…
Data Columns
All in the Data: Becoming a CDO When There is No Role
I work with a lot of organizations that do not (yet) have a person in the role of Chief Data…
Data Professional Introspective: Conducting a DCAM Assessment
My company led a Data Management Assessment for a government agency this spring, using the Data Management Capability Assessment Model…
Crossing the Data Divide: Closing Gaps in Perception of Data as Corporate Asset
It’s my great pleasure and honor to begin as a columnist for TDAN.com. TDAN.com has a long and distinguished record…
The Book Look: Non-Invasive Data Governance Strikes Again
From Bob Seiner’s first book, Non-Invasive Data Governance, we learned how to get the benefits of data governance without making…
NIDG Perspective: A Trusted Trainer for Data
This column is a stand-in for a new column that will be announced for the 3rd month each quarter starting…
Through the Looking Glass: The Sounds of Data, Part 2
In Part 1 of The Sounds of Data, I wrote about the power of sonification, which translates data into sounds…
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 Centric Revolution: Is a 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…