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.…
Data Columns
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…
Data is Risky Business: I Want My ChatGPT
The world is a-buzz with articles about ChatGPT and other Large Learning Models such as Google’s Bard. The tone and…
Data’s Gender Gap: What Data Goes Into the Products We Use?
What is data without research? And how else can we know we have good, usable data except besides knowing that…
The Data-Centric Revolution: Zero Copy Integration
I love the term “Zero Copy Integration.” I didn’t come up with it, it was the Data Collaboration Alliance,[1] that…
Through the Looking Glass: Sounds of Data – Part 1
“There is nothing new under the sun.” Ecclesiastes 1:9 I know this biblical quote has serious implications. But here, I…
Eyes on Data: The Elevated Role of Data Management and the CDO
The role of the Chief Data Officer (CDO) or the Chief Data Executive continues to gain relevance and importance in…
Data Speaks for Itself: The Path Less Traveled
As you can probably tell from my previous columns, my thinking lately has been very focused on the issue of…
The Art of Lean Governance: Data Inventory Optimization
Data inventory optimization is about efficiently solving the right problem. In this column, we will return to the idea of…