The Art of Lean Governance: Eliminating Waste Across the Data Factory
The time wasted spent collecting and validating data can approach 80% of the total effort for managing data. This estimate…
Data Quality News, Articles, & Education
Get a thorough Data Quality education through TDAN’s Business Intelligence articles, news, and blogs.
Zen and the Art of Data Maintenance: All Data is Suffering (Part 2)
In part 1 of this series, I shared how our reactions to data can cause a great deal of suffering…
All in the Data: The Same Difference of Data Governance and Data Management
What does your head do when someone uses the expression “same difference”? Mine explodes! Does it mean things are the…
Celebrating 25 Years of TDAN.com!
Twenty-five years ago on June 22, 1997, I published the first issue of The Data Administration Newsletter. Websites were new…
Get People to Be Data Stewards
Few organizations have all the technical and functional data stewards in place to handle the ever-increasing data-related questions and requests.…
Disinformation, Governance and Trust
In April 2022, the Department of Homeland Security announced the “Disinformation Governance Board” whose ostensible mission was to stop the…
Trends Data Leaders Should Anticipate
Not surprisingly, digital transformation is a prerequisite for forward-thinking businesses. The catastrophic disruption of the global pandemic did not slow…
Data Speaks for Itself: Data Speaks as Product
One of the greatest contributions to the understanding of data quality and data quality management happened in the 1980s when…
What I Learned from Executing Data Quality Projects
Getting to great data quality need not be a blood sport! But there must be a method to the madness,…
The Art of Lean Governance: Go Lean and Stop Burning Cash
Lean Governance is a proven method to stop burning your company’s cash. This approach is all about saving money by…