Click here to learn more about author Tejasvi Addagada. Data Governance enables us to harness the right data fit for the purpose of raising an organization’s confidence and trust in their data. There is definite value associated by leveraging the right data for business functions. At the same time, there is also risk related to data and […]
Data Governance: Making Big Data Manageable
Click to learn more about author Avi Kalderon. Some businesses are swimming through their “lake” of big data. Some feel like they are drowning. The difference, often, is the ability to actively adapt data governance and data management capabilities right from the start. Here are five ways data governance can make big data manageable and empower […]
Selling the Value of Data Science, Governance or Analytics
Click here to learn more about Kimberly Nevala. I’ve recently participated in a number of executive forums on the rewards and realities of creating data-savvy and analytically-enabled cultures. Interestingly, one key theme comes up repeatedly in audience Q&A: how to make the case? Seems simple enough, but this step often causes those who understand the […]
Three Steps to Renovate Your Company’s Data
Click here to learn more about Erin Latham. We all dream about renovating our homes. We’re addicted to HGTV, and we scour the Internet in search of inspiring ways to update our houses and make them more livable. A good home revamp doesn’t just make our lives easier; it also boosts our equity. The same […]
Success by Integrating Risk Management Principles Into Your Data Governance Policy
Data Governance enables us to harness the right data for purpose of raising an organization’s confidence and trust in their data. There is a definite value associated with leveraging the right data for business functions. At the same time, there is also risk related to data and its operations. This risk is a business risk and should […]
Why Your Company Needs a Data Hero (and How to Find One)
Click here to learn more about author Marie Crump. The person I call a “data hero” is an indispensable asset in the increasingly data-based business landscape. No organization can do without at least one, and a whole team of them can change everything. Here’s why every company needs a data hero: Data is big — […]
Harnessing the Power of Your Collective in Data Governance and Data Science
Click to learn more about Kimberly Nevala. Emerging data solutions and trends have a common thread: the power of the collective in which the final product is bigger than the sum of its parts. Companies leading the data and analytics charge have recognized that the power of a collective applies to more than technology. They […]
Data Warehouse Model Quality
Click here to learn more about author Michael Blaha. This is the second of a two-part series about data model quality. This blog discusses quality for data warehouses. The prior month’s blog discussed quality for operational applications. Data warehouses have a much different architecture and different business motivations than operational applications. For example, operational applications […]
Where is the Data Security Officer on the Organizational Chart?
Click here to learn more about author David Schlesinger. Let us be clear, your system users are mostly brilliant workers, having great knowledge and expertise in their lines of endeavor: scientists, accountants, shipping specialists, logistic planners, attorneys, HR and property experts all keep your enterprise running. They are not, however, experts in every other process in […]
The Titanic Teaches us About Data Assets and Reflexivity
Click here to learn more about author Reuben Vandeventer. I rarely start out sentences with “It’s sort of like the sinking of the Titanic,” … but for this topic, I’ll make an exception. The point I want to make is that from a data quality perspective, what actually sunk the famous vessel was not so much […]