Why You Should Care About Data Modeling
Many software developers distrust data architecture practices such as data modeling. They associate these practices with rigid and bureaucratic processes…
Tales & Tips from the Trenches: Data Catalog War Stories
Data Catalogs have great promise. They can provide the businessperson, analyst, architect, system engineer and data scientist alike the ability…
Introduction to Data Technical Debt
“Technical debt” refers to the implied cost of future refactoring or rework to improve the quality of an asset to…
Thoughts on Data Literacy & Data Quality
Last week, we presented a webinar in our Data Governance — Best Practices series on data quality. Among the recommended…
Should We Consider Banishing CIOs?
“First thing we do, let’s banish all of the CIOs.” Too harsh? Shakespeare was much harder on lawyers. But the…
The Book Look: We The People (Playbook for Data Ethics)
I love books that make you think. We The People, by Kathy Rondon, leads us down the path of rethinking…
Data Value Chain: Lego Framework – Level 2
“Data Driven” as a key word is not new. Success stories of implementing a data driven culture or creating successful…
Buyer Intent Data to Leverage Sales Growth
If you could pinpoint the exact prospects and accounts in the market for your needs and then target them with…
All in the Data: A Steward is a Steward
“A rose by any other name would smell as sweet” is a popular maxim from William Shakespeare’s play Romeo and Juliet,…
Why Data Quality Programs Fail to Deliver Results
Fortune 1000 organizations spend approximately $5 billion in total each year to improve the trustworthiness of data. Yet, only 42%…