The Serviceberry Mindset: How Nature’s Gift Economy Can Reshape Data Governance
The Death of the Data Silo Is Not the End of the Problem For years, we’ve heard that breaking down…
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The Art of Lean Governance: Moving Beyond Governance Buzzwords and Bling
This column will expand on a Systems Thinking approach to Data Governance and focus on process control. The vendors of…
Celebrating a Year of Excellence: EDM Council’s Data Excellence Program
The EDM Council’s Data Excellence Program has reached a significant milestone: its first anniversary. The program is proving to be…
The State of Data Governance
In 2024, our research at Dresner Advisory Services revealed that only 32% of organizations have a formal data governance organization…
Data Speaks for Itself: Data Quality Management in the Age of Language Models
Unsurprisingly, my last two columns discussed artificial intelligence (AI), specifically the impact of language models (LMs) on data curation. My…
A Step Ahead: IoT Computing – Where Computing Occurs
There is always the need for computing to be more available and distributed, especially given the data volume generated from…
Generative AI vs. Predictive AI: Comparing Apples and Oranges
The AI revolution is upon us, with businesses pouring billions of dollars into generative and predictive AI solutions. From crafting…
What Is a Citizen Data Scientist and How Has the Role Changed?
The world-renowned technology research firm Gartner first introduced the concept of the citizen data scientist in 2016. Since then, the…
Crossing the Data Divide: A Case for Data Leaders Embracing Process Modeling
In the early days of enterprise data and business systems, process modeling and data modeling went hand-in-hand. It was standard…
The Brave New World of Embedded BI and Analytics
Your business users probably have their favorite legacy systems, best-of-breed solutions, and business apps. When your IT and management team…