Business Glossary Definitions: The Most Difficult Effort
My last article presented an overview of the Business Glossary and its potential contents. While there may be 100 attributes…
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Data Governance in Agile Projects
I’ve come to consider the Agile project delivery methodology to be a great tool for data governance. The iterative approach…
A Ten-Step Plan for an Effective Data Governance Structure
Executive Summary The quality of data used in business is more important now than ever before. Accordingly, in order for…
Toward a Better Understanding of Metadata – Metadata Defined
Metadata is all about integration of data across the various levels of data management abstraction (e.g., Zachman Framework) – business,…
Data is Risky Business: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Safe Harbor
On the 6th of October the Court of Justice of the European Union (the equivalent of the United States Supreme…
Data Cleansing vs Data Maintenance: Which One Is Most Important?
There are always two aspects to data quality improvement. Data cleansing is the one-off process of tackling errors within the…
The Data-Centric Revolution: Seven Warning Signs of Appliosclerosis
Of all the dangers that befall those on the journey to data centrism, by far the greatest danger is Appliosclerosis.…
Govern by Value: Data-driven Business Excellence
The onset of the information age has irrevocably changed the way business activities are conducted, evaluated, and managed. A paradigm…
Pragmatic Data: Where Does Your Data Science Live?
“…with the help of the pattern language that existed in traditional society, they were able to generate a complete, living…
Invest in New but Improve Old
Executive Summary Emerging technologies like Big Data, Digital Analytics, Cloud, and so on are lucrative, but organization should take a…