Zen and the Art of Data Maintenance: Situational Fluency in Data Management
How to Act Wisely in Difficult Circumstances that We Often Face Our job in data management can certainly be challenging.…
Business Intelligence Columns
Business Intelligence Columns
All in the Data: Calm Management’s Fears About Data Governance
Wouldn’t it be great if you could simply put structure around how your organization governs your data without throwing a…
The Book Look: The Elephant in the Fridge
Guided Steps to Data Vault Success through Building Business-Centered Models John Giles wrote The Nimble Elephant a number of years…
Make an Impact: Find the Angry People
I love angry people. Whenever I’m invited to a new organization to help with data challenges, I look for them.…
Business Glossaries and Metadata: Data Governance May Require a Village
Is your organization struggling to succeed with your Data Governance program? Is adoption by the business an issue for you?…
Data is Risky Business: The Ethics Revolution in Information
This past month, San Francisco’s City Council voted to ban the use of facial recognition technologies. Internationally, and perhaps a…
DAMA International Community Corner: Announcements & New Chapters
Welcome to DAMA Corner, a source of information for data management professionals here in TDAN.com, an industry-leading publication for people interested in…
All in the Data: CDOs Should Be Asking “How” … and Not “Why”
The secret lies with Data Governance. The Chief Data Officer (or whoever the Data Czar is at your organization) needs…
Data is Risky Business: Call for Compulsory Ethics
In our book, Ethical Data and Information Management, Katherine O’Keefe and I look at the relationship between the Ethic of Society, which today finds expression…
All in the Data: Negative Attitudes and the Four Horsemen of the Data Apocalypse
From time to time, TDAN.com polishes off oldie but goodie content. A regular columnist required time to address personal issues,…