The Book Look: Quick Retrospect
Steve Hoberman has been a long-time contributor to The Data Administration Newsletter (TDAN.com), including his The Book Look column since…
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Can You Have Both an Offensive vs. Defensive Data Strategy?
It’s widely accepted that limited time and resources force organizations to make trade-offs between offense and defense when implementing their…
Practical Points from the DGPO: An Introduction to Information Risk Management
There is an ever-increasing awareness of concerns about data privacy, corporate data breaches, increasing demands for regulatory compliance. There are…
Data Professional Introspective: What Good Data Looks Like – Part 2
This column is next in the series of how organizations achieve and sustain significant improvements in fundamental data management disciplines…
A Data Governance Self-Assessment Test
The purpose of this article is to provide a model to conduct a self-assessment of your organization’s data environment when…
What is a Data Catalog? Value, Benefits and Features
No matter where data comes from, becoming data-driven depends on every member of your organization being able to find, access,…
Data is Risky Business: The Next Normal
Taking Stock A year ago, organisations of all sizes around the world were catapulted into a cycle of digital and…
Non-Invasive Data Governance Q&A
What’s new in the world of non-invasive data governance? I am glad you asked. I participated in a couple of…
Through the Looking Glass: Data Stewards in the Realm of Gondor
Welcome to “Through the Looking Glass,” my new column on TDAN.com. In this and future columns, I will look at…
The Data-Centric Revolution: The Role of SemOps (Part 2)
In our previous installment of this two-part series we introduced a couple of ideas. First, data governance may be more…