Data Management 20/20: Governing Data from Business Motivation to Behavior
Recently, I was working with a colleague on a data governance project. When it came to defining the data governance…
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Practical Points from the DGPO: Supportive Data Governance for EUC
[Publisher’s Note: This is the final column from the Data Governance Professionals Organization. Thank you, DGPO, for providing content to…
Data Professional Introspective: What Good Data Looks Like – Part 4
This column is next in the series of how organizations achieve and sustain significant improvements in fundamental data management disciplines,…
Your Next Data Skill is Stakeholder Empathy
The role of data people is often to interpret and communicate information. This can mean taking raw data and cleaning…
Data is Risky Business: Return to Sender
A recent experience brought home to me the critical importance of good quality data in even the simplest of processes,…
Data Modeling for Quality
In this article, I describe a method of modelling data so that it meets business requirements. Central to this method…
Data Quality Problems Everywhere You Look
Data is everywhere! But can you find the data you need? Can you trust it when you get it? What…
Through the Looking Glass: Caught in the Web of Data
“There is another undefined frontier, that of time. A living language is in a continuous state of change, of ‘slow…
Zen and The Art of Data Maintenance: Does Data Alone Inspire Environmental Actions?
“The earth does not belong to man, man belongs to the earth. All things are connected like the blood that…
None Shall Pass! Are Your Database Standards Too Rigid?
Rigidly adhering to a standard, any standard, without being reasonable and using your ability to think through changing situations and circumstances…