Make An Impact: The Time is Now to Become a Data Leader
This is a quarterly column, and since the last one, the world has fundamentally changed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.…
data governance
Information Governance, IT Governance, Data Governance – What’s the Difference?
There has been a great deal of confusion around the term information governance (IG), and how it is distinct from…
Towards Data Governance’s 4th Era – Part III – Providing the Structure for Invention
As I begin this article, it strikes me that the entire world is focusing on data, the data about COVID-19.…
Data Management 20/20: Data Governance Challenges in a Digital Society
The reversal from information scarcity to information abundance and the shift from the primacy of entities to the primacy of…
Truth in Data – Buyer Beware
To quote a classic movie, Network, “I am as mad as hell and I am not going to take this…
Towards Data Governance’s 4th Era – Part II
I finished my last article, Part I of “Towards Data Governance’s 4th Era”, with a question: What is the goal…
All in the Data: My, My, Hey, Hey – The Value of Data is Here to Stay
Neil Young waxed poetically when he proclaimed that “It’s better to burn out than it is to rust” in his…
Practical Points from the DGPO: Things to Know About Stewardship
Stewardship is one of the foundational components of a successful data governance (DG) program but it can also be one…
Data Starvation and Your Data Metabolism
David Crosby, of super group fame with Stills, Nash and Young, once said that you have to write about something…
The Antidote is Facts – Facts Require Data
Back in 2017, I wrote an article titled There are No Facts … Without Data. It is time to revisit…