It’s All in the Data: Data 2020
The year 2020 could be very special – or not so much. 2020 will be cool for a couple of…
The Chief Data Officer Rises
In another article I wrote that we must Unleash the Data Democracy, I discussed that data citizens have had enough of…
Managing Metadata in the Self-Service Age
As the world of data management grows and changes, the roles and participants in data ecosystems must adapt. With the…
Five Things for Data Governance Success
Working with his clients, the author has identified a set of practices that strongly align with success in the data…
Bad Data’s Impact on Decision-Making
Having been around the block, we data professionals have seen many cases of data which could be construed as “imaginative.” …
The Book Look: Flow-Based Leadership
The following is a review of the book Flow-Based Leadership by Judith L. Glick-Smith, PhD. Sometimes when I am teaching,…
Data Professional Introspective: Comparative Data Management (Part 3)
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 4 (Coming Soon) In our last column, Comparative Data Management,…
Comparing Approaches to Data Governance
Three approaches to implement data governance include 1) the Command and Control approach, 2) the Traditional approach, and 3) the…
The Soft Stuff is the Hard Stuff
SimsionÕs Consulting Skills workshop has been the highest rated presentation at the past three DAMA / Metadata conferences, and at…
Exploiting a Semantic Method
In this paper I wrote with Sylviane Cardey and Peter Greenfield we examine how a semantics based technique, MMS (Méta Modèle…