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…
Business Intelligence Columns
Business Intelligence Columns
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. …
Business Glossaries and Metadata: Data Governance and Glossary Readiness
I am often asked “how do we capture our data glossary assets” and “are we ready to engage with data…
Ask the Data Governance Coach: How Long Will My Data Governance Initiative Take?
In this column, I want to address a question that I am asked several times every week. To be honest,…
Practical Points from the DGPO: I Need A Data Governance Therapist
Why is Data Governance so hard? I often kid at Data Governance conferences (like the Dataversity and DEBtech International winter…
The Book Look: Achieving Buzzword Compliance
Come back in time with me to 1999. What a year for both movies and data! You probably can guess…
All in the Data: Time for a Data Intervention
Interventions are a systematic process of assessment and planning, employed to remediate or prevent a problem. The process is often…