It’s all in the Data: Data is Like Contaminated Water
What if the water that flowed through the pipes in your house or apartment was contaminated and you knew that if…
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The Business of Data: Focus on the Data that is Important to Your Business
A key tenet of my information management practice is that any data strategy needs to be driven by the organization’s…
Start Data Governance by Protecting Your Data
There are many reasons why organizations design, develop and deliver Data Governance Programs. Typical reasons include – to improve data…
Mastering Data: An Algorithm to Clean Names
It has been a great challenge in many companies to preserve name consistency with written Latin characters in countries where…
Business Glossaries and Metadata: Governance of Enterprise Reference Data – Why Do We Care?
Reference Data Management often struggles to be governed as an enterprise data asset. Many organizations still view Reference Data as…
How to Avoid the Requirements Trap
Jason Williscroft has written elsewhere about sources of inertia that can send an EDM project sideways. In that piece he…
Seiner’s Data Steward Rules
In this article Bob Seiner shares with you "SeinerÕs Rules for Becoming a Data Steward". You may not agree with…
Protection of PII Data is Vital: A Slice of PII
“It is not me!” I am not the one making the rules. I was not the person who decided that…
Toward a Better Understanding of Metadata – Governance
New business and technological disruptions are changing the nature and meaning of Data Governance, fostering new ways to manage and…
Digital Transformer: Introducing the IT4IT Standard
About three years ago, I got an unexpected email from Shell Oil – in particular, their chief architect for the…