Data Professional Introspective: How to Tackle a Data Quality Strategy
Everyone talks about the importance of data quality, but no one does anything about it. Not anything much, that is. …
Data Strategy
Business Glossaries and Metadata: Data Governance and Glossary Readiness
I am often asked “how do we capture our data glossary assets” and “are we ready to engage with data…
Make an Impact: Three Words to Irrelevancy
I get it. Creating data value is challenging under the best circumstances—and frankly, most of us aren’t in perfect situations.…
Hearing the Voice of Your Customer
What do these very diverse businesses have in common? TWA. PAN AM. Woolworth’s. Sports Authority. Staples. Banana Republic. They have one…
Data Professional Introspective: Know Thy Enterprise Data
Data is an organization’s ‘prana’ (breath of life). For virtually all organizations, we can assert: Data has grown like an…
The Book Look: Data Strategy and the Enterprise Data Executive
In this quarter’s column for TDAN.com, I would like to share an excerpt from a book that just recently released:…
The Business of Data: Focus on the Data that is Important to Your Business
A key tenet of my information management practice is that any data strategy needs to be driven by the organization’s…