To view the slides from this presentation, click HERE>> This webinar is sponsored by: About the Webinar The first step towards understanding data assets’ impact on your organization is understanding what those assets mean for each other. Metadata — literally, data about data — is a practice area required by good systems development, and yet is […]
DataEd Slides: Essential Metadata Strategies
Data-Ed: Essential Metadata Strategies from DATAVERSITY To view the webinar from this presentation, click HERE>> This webinar is sponsored by: About the Webinar The first step towards understanding data assets’ impact on your organization is understanding what those assets mean for each other. Metadata — literally, data about data — is a practice area required by […]
Excessive Bureaucracy Is Killing Data Governance
Click to learn more about author Steve Zagoudis. Despite the best-in-class Data Governance policies and programs, failure rates are still too high. Current efforts often fall short of delivering trusted data, despite huge investments of time and money. People are looking for a better way, judging by the high popularity of “Data Governance 101” conference […]
What Is a Data Silo?
Data silos have often had a negative connotation. They describe isolated data islands that appear or are discovered upon finding disjointed Data Management components. These include: Systems that cannot programmatically work with other systems because of older or incompatible code Fixed data that is controlled by one department or team but is cut off from […]
Data Management vs. Data Strategy
In a DATAVERSITY® interview, Donna Burbank, the Managing Director at Global Data Strategy, said, “The difference between Data Management vs. Data Strategy is almost in the definition of the two words. Think about your money. If you’re just managing it, you’re sort of just getting by, but if you’re thinking strategically, you’re really thinking of […]
Implementing Data Strategy Across the Data Lifecycle
Organizations wishing to implement a Data Strategy—a set of decisions that form a pattern, charting a high-level course of action—face significant challenges in unifying their message across the data lifecycle. Only 30% of companies have a clear organizational Data Strategy, leaving their different departments to figure out how to manage company data assets. Moreover, two […]
What Facebook and Big Tobacco Got Wrong (but AI Governance Can Still Get Right)
Click to learn more about author Anthony Habayeb. Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen’s testimony to Congress about abusive algorithms and AI referenced Big Tobacco’s enormous influence and fall in the latter half of the 20th century. What’s challenging about the comparison, however, is that smoking is unequivocally bad for you. AI governance offers great promise to enhance our […]
Dear Laura: My Data Governance Program Is Being Hijacked
Click to learn more about author Laura Madsen. 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 […]
Data Ethics: What, Why Now, and Where Do We Start?
Click to learn more about author Peter Jackson. We have to make ethical decisions every day when working with data. The problem is, a lot of the time we might not realize when this is the case. Data professionals and organizations are often so focused on what can be done with data and at what scale, that […]
How Organizations Can Enlist Automation for Good
Click to learn more about author Margareta Chesaru. While many organizations are already riding the wave of automation, some are just starting their automation journeys. IDC’s Future of Work 2021 Survey shows that 47% of organizations in Europe are planning to implement robotic process automation (RPA) in the next 18 months and 39% are planning to implement […]