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…
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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…
Data Quality Problems Everywhere You Look
Data is everywhere! But can you find the data you need? Can you trust it when you get it? What…
Ownership of Vocabulary vs. Ownership of Data
Can the responsibilities for vocabulary ownership and data ownership by business stakeholders be separate? Should they be? I have listened…
Metadata Improves Security, Quality, and Transparency
How does Spotify win against a competitor like Apple? They use data better. Using machine learning and AI, Spotify creates…
The Key Role of the Data Governance Partner
A question was raised in a recent webinar about the role of the Data Architect and Data Modelers in a…
What Exactly is External Data?
My company has been talking a lot about our products because there has been some incredible progress on what we’re…
Improve Data Governance with These Data Modeling Tips
Data Governance describes the practices and processes organizations use to manage the access, use, quality and security of an organizations…
All in the Data: Elements of a Data Strategy
I published an article a few months back that was titled Where Does Data Governance Fit in a Data Strategy…