What is Privacy Engineering?
Introduction Privacy engineering, as a discrete discipline or field of inquiry and innovation, may be defined as using engineering principles…
data governance
Data Governance is a Team Sport
As companies realize the importance of data as a driver to their long-term viability, data governance is a topic that…
How a Data Catalog Enables Data Democratization
For many organizations, data is a business asset that’s owned by the IT department. Based on this ‘data ownership’ model,…
The Power of the Subject Matter Expert (SME)
The knowledge of a Subject Matter Expert, or SME, can make or break any projects of any type. It does…
Cloud Data Governance
Migrating data to the public cloud offers a wide range of benefits for enterprises; data teams can more easily access…
Through the Looking Glass: Data Discovery, Learned Machines, and Strange Loops
Recently I had the privilege of taking part in a panel discussion about Data Discovery with several distinguished colleagues from…
Data Management 20/20: Governing Data from Business Motivation to Behavior
Recently, I was working with a colleague on a data governance project. When it came to defining the data governance…
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…
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…