Why Your Data Governance Strategy is Failing
What is Data Governance and How Do You Measure Success? Data governance is a system for answering core questions about…
Metadata Management News, Articles, & Education
Get a thorough Metadata Management education through TDAN’s Business Intelligence articles, news, and blogs.
The Art of Lean Governance: Attack Bureaucratic Bloat in Data Governance
As proponents of Lean Thinking, we view corporations as data factories that produce information for operations, reporting, and financial modeling.…
All in the Data: Data Governance Bill of “Rights” Revisited
I last published my Data Governance Bill of “Rights” in a TDAN.com article circa 2017. That seems like a long…
You Needed to Use External Data Yesterday
There’s an impossible amount of information thrown at us every day. Our jobs, calls, emails, news media, dashboards, more emails,…
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…
Ownership of Vocabulary vs. Ownership of Data
Can the responsibilities for vocabulary ownership and data ownership by business stakeholders be separate? Should they be? I have listened…
Differences Between Data Management and Data Governance
A common misconception among c-level executives is that governance and management of data is the same thing other than in…
DAMA International Community Corner: August 2021 – A Wrap for Now
It has been an incredible run. I hope it is just “see you soon” rather than “goodbye.” With this column,…