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…
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Defeat Your Data Demons
The stories you hear on the news often mention how this person or that person was battling their demons. Alcoholism,…
Business Glossaries and Metadata: Data Governance May Require a Village
Is your organization struggling to succeed with your Data Governance program? Is adoption by the business an issue for you?…
Look Out for These Six Data Mistakes
As a year-end activity, a lot of people write about the top-ten this and the top-ten that, from the year…
Collaborative Information Governance
This is the second of three articles that I am writing to introduce the Collaborative Information Governance Framework (CIGF)TM. The…
Fix the “Data Situation”
What would you do with your data (i.e. what type of analytics would you run) if you had the data…
Questions Metadata Can Answer
The world of information technology has “grown up” dramatically in the last twenty-five years – the term of my comparably…
Everybody is a Data Steward; Get Over It!
A Data Steward is someone that has formal accountability for data in the organization. I say that everybody in the…
Practical Points from the DGPO: Who’s Who in Data Governance
How should the data governance organization be structured? What are the roles needed? Who should ultimately be responsible for data…
Guidelines for Becoming a Data Steward
I am often asked, “How do we figure out who the Data Stewards are in our organization?”. I commonly tell people that “Everybody…