Crossing the Data Divide: Strategic Priorities for Data Leaders in 2026
It’s July. That means budget season for most enterprises with a calendar fiscal year. And for data leaders, it’s time…
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Crossing the Data Divide: Where Should Data Lineage Rank in a Data Leader’s Priorities?
I’ve been deeply involved in implementing data lineage using several technologies throughout my career, but things are different now. One…
Crossing the Data Divide: A Case for Data Leaders Embracing Process Modeling
In the early days of enterprise data and business systems, process modeling and data modeling went hand-in-hand. It was standard…
Data Leader’s Playbook for Data Mapping
I’ve been thinking a lot about data mapping lately. I know, weird, right? With analytics, AI, cloud, etc., why would…
Crossing the Data Divide: Metrics Stores Remind Me That Data Work Is Hard
If you haven’t heard about metrics stores yet, they’re “newish,” so you likely will. They are interesting to an extent,…
Crossing the Data Divide: AI Data Assistants — A Data Leader’s Force Multiplier
The focus of my last column, titled Crossing the Data Divide: Data Catalogs and the Generative AI Wave, was on…
Crossing the Data Divide: Data Catalogs and the Generative AI Wave
The “Tide” of LLMs Has Reached Our Shores As a career data professional and having spent most of the last…
Crossing the Data Divide: Framework for Selling Data Initiatives
Deja Vu All Over Again Something interesting has been happening to me over the last few months that I’ve not…
Crossing the Data Divide: Closing Gaps in Perception of Data as Corporate Asset
It’s my great pleasure and honor to begin as a columnist for TDAN.com. TDAN.com has a long and distinguished record…
A Framework for Understanding Data Consumers and Producers
Something has been bothering me about data products. It’s the point at which the consumer of a data product immediately…