The role of chief data officer (CDO) has existed for over two decades, but despite its establishment as a C-suite staple, the position still suffers from a lack of clear definition and understanding within organizations. A significant majority (73%) of CDOs feel their role is poorly understood compared to other C-level executives, stemming primarily from […]
How to Become a Data Steward
An essential role in any data-driven organization, a data steward is expected to manage and protect valuable data resources while ensuring that the integrity of the data remains intact. A steward must ensure that the data is useful to the company and meets its business objectives. Data stewards are also responsible for monitoring the data […]
How to Govern a Business Glossary
Many people see the dictionary as a thing of unquestionable authority, with words and meanings that rarely change. Likewise, in corporate culture, business leaders often mistake the business glossary – a collection of data-related terms and definitions used within an organization – as being static, straightforward, and simple to develop and maintain. Timothy Mulholland, associate manager and […]
Improving Data Quality with Data Stewardship
To get value from data, data stewards must understand and apply business requirements. When business ambiguity arises about how to best serve data stakeholders, data stewards need to know how to find out this information and with whom to speak. By doing so, stewards can align fit-for-purpose data with business needs and improve data quality. Data stewards understand […]
How to Become a Data Quality Specialist
First came the data analyst, then came the Data Quality specialist. Data analysts require accurate data to develop business intelligence and, unless someone else is cleaning the data, they must also perform this task. It is time-consuming and interferes with analyzing the data for useful business intelligence. Enter the Data Quality specialist, who takes responsibility […]
Why Mature Data Governance Is Essential for Data-Driven Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI)
This is part one of a two-part article. In this section, we discuss how Data Governance can be leveraged to support data-driven diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). In the next section, we will look at how to manage DEI data risk. Diversity is recognized as key to increasing performance within organizations. Chief diversity officers face […]
Data Quality Best Practices
Using Data Quality best practices to gather accurate data is essential for gaining useful results from research and providing visiting customers with a good experience. Data has become a key part of most business transactions and operations. The quality of data that is gathered, stored, and used are major factors in the success of a […]
Data Governance Frameworks
A Data Governance framework can be described as a collection of processes, rules, and responsibilities used to structure an organization’s Data Governance program. A solid framework will cover data standards, data privacy, business strategies, and the responsibilities of key individuals. Well-designed Data Governance frameworks support effective Data Governance programs and should standardize rules and processes across the […]
Using AI and Machine Learning with Data Governance
Anomalous data can be disastrous to enterprise Data Management. Data corruption frequently occurs due to data silos or inconsistent data formats, divergent views of data through different systems, human errors, multiple data entries of the same data by multiple users, poor Data Governance and many more reasons. With an ever-growing stream of high-volume, high-velocity data […]
Data Quality Metrics: How to Measure Success
Data Quality metrics are a measuring system that allows the “quality of data” to be evaluated. Data Quality metrics can be used to determine how useful and relevant data is, and it helps to separate high-quality data from low-quality data. It is much easier—and safer—to make business decisions based on reliable information. Poor information (based […]