Welcome to the Dear Laura blog series! As I’ve been working to challenge the status quo on Data Governance – I get a lot of questions about how it will “really” work. I’ll be sharing these questions and answers via this DATAVERSITY® series. In 2019, I wrote the book “Disrupting Data Governance” because I firmly believe that […]
How Cloud Governance Allows Businesses to Become Compliant Superheroes
In the battle of the old vs. the new, it is evident that traditional identity and access management (IAM) solutions are gradually getting phased out by cloud solutions. Hence, there is a need to shift to cloud-based identity governance and administration (IGA) solutions. This type of cloud governance is more secure and reliable while providing […]
Good Data Governance Must Go Hand in Hand with Digital Transformation
Good Data Governance is often the difference between an organization’s success and failure. And from a digital transformation standpoint, many view technologies like AI, robotics, and big data as being critical for helping companies and their boards to respond to events quicker than ever. However, the fact is that a digital approach completely changes and […]
Overcoming the Data Decision Gap in 2022
As organizations enter a new year, leaders across industries are increasingly collecting more data to drive innovative growth strategies. Yet to move forward effectively, these organizations need greater context around their data to make accurate and streamlined decisions. A recent Data in Context research study found that more than 95% of organizations suffer from a data decision […]
How Records of Processing Activities (ROPA) Can Benefit Your Business
GDPR introduced the Records of Processing Activities (ROPA) requirements to drive better accountability from organizations with their use of personal data. Before GDPR, organizations didn’t track how they used and shared personal data, making data privacy risks impossible to comprehend. Now GDPR mandates that organizations create and maintain essential information about how an organization uses personal data. […]
Data Governance Without Security Leaves Sensitive Data Exposed
“Data Governance” is such an interesting term. As data started becoming more critical to business in the last few years, this idea was introduced to define the business processes necessary to comply with regulatory requirements. But even more recently, heightened regulatory attention with GDPR and CCPA in 2018, persistent PII data breaches, and data centralization across enterprises have created […]
The F-Word That Really Matters
We now exist in a post-privacy world. Our expectations for proper curation and care of personal data have gone out the window during the global pandemic where Big Tech, Big Pharma, and Big Government have repeatedly acted more like Big Brother without significant objection from the public. Internet trolls, deceptive sales practices, and data breaches […]
Data Privacy Has Become a Human Right
A deep history of pivotal moments gave root to our modern idea of human rights. Ancients like King Hammurabi set in stone (literally) some parts of the idea that every person has basic rights and freedom. Along the way, the Magna Carta, English Bill of Rights, Virginia Declaration of Rights, and U.S. Bill of Rights […]
What Every Business Leader Needs to Know About Data Modeling
The COVID-19 pandemic has meant that data-driven decisions have influenced all our lives over the last two years. But decisions made without proper data foundations, such as well-constructed and updated data models, can lead to potentially disastrous results. For example, the Imperial College London epidemiology data model was used by the U.K. Government in 2020 […]
Why Synthetic Data Still Has a Data Quality Problem
According to Gartner, 85% of Data Science projects fail (and are predicted to do so through 2022). I suspect the failure rates are even higher, as more and more organizations today are trying to utilize the power of data to improve their services or create new revenue streams. Not having the “right” data continues to prevent […]