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 Intelligence Columns
Business Intelligence Columns
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,…
The Data-Centric Revolution: The 1st Annual Data Centric Architecture Forum
In the past few weeks, we (the author’s company) hosted a new Data-Centric Architecture Conference. One of the conclusions made…
Ask the Data Governance Coach: Data Governance over a Data Lake?
There is currently a lot of excitement about data lakes and the possibilities that they offer, particularly about the analytics…
Data Professional Introspective: How to Tackle a Data Quality Strategy
Everyone talks about the importance of data quality, but no one does anything about it. Not anything much, that is. …