Click to learn more about Danette McGilvray. Data quality is a perspective. It is something you see and not something you just turn off like a light when you go home for the day. For instance, do you realize that ensuring accurate, trustworthy election results is all about data quality? Did you know that moving […]
Quantifying the Business Value of Data Governance
by Angela Guess Craig Stedman recently wrote in Search Data Management, “If you’re looking to launch a data governance program in your organization, don’t forget to include a plan for creating data quality metrics that can quantify the initiative’s business value. That was one of the top planning and implementation priorities cited by data governance […]
Building a Data-Driven Business Culture with Data Governance
by Angela Guess Forbes contributor Dan Woods recently wrote, “The whole world has fallen in love with the value that data can bring. The work that must be done to unlock that value is far less popular… In the case of data, the fun stuff is playing with technology, distilling massive data sets using cool […]
Most Healthcare Organizations Only Have “Rudimentary” Data Governance
by Angela Guess Greg Gillespie recently wrote in Information Management, “The need for a strong data governance structure has been talked to death in healthcare, but even for all the ink the topic has received, most healthcare organizations lack a sound plan, which could come back to haunt them as they embark on analytics and […]
Challenges of Managing Unstructured Data
by Angela Guess Kon Leong recently wrote in GCN.com, “Despite the rapidly advancing processing and algorithmic tools available today, organizations are having a difficult time reaping the insights that these technologies are supposed to generate. This is largely because of to the mismanagement of data; data that hasn’t been managed and cleaned is of little […]
Data Governance Demystified – Lessons from the Trenches
by Jay Zaidi Data Governance has become a top priority in the Data Management industry lately due to a renewed focus on Big Data, Data Security, Data Privacy, Master Data Management (MDM), Reference Data Management, Regulatory Compliance, and Data Quality Management. Many companies have some form of Data Governance in place, via data controls (e.g. SOX controls), structured […]