Data is Risky Business: Promoting DG Principles
I was giving testimony to a Joint Committee of both Houses of the Irish Parliament on data sharing legislation earlier this week. As part of the testimony I and other witnesses were giving, a...
View ArticleIt’s All in the Data: Everybody is a Data Steward, Get Over It!
Everybody in the organization is a data steward and we need to JUST BELIEVE IT and GET OVER THAT FACT. Everybody in the organization that has a relationship to data must be held formally accountable...
View ArticleThe Data Forecast: Data Quality is Not What We Think
The data management space is riddled with terms that sound familiar but betray their true complexity. We also often choose ridiculous terms that describe simple concepts (see metadata management), but...
View ArticleData is Risky Business: What Business R U In?
Trust is the opposite of risk. Risk is the effect of uncertainty on objectives. Trust is the presence of certainty. The various things we do in Data Governance and Information Quality to tame data are...
View ArticleData and Trending Technologies: Data in Blockchain Technologies
In my previous column on TDAN.com, I reviewed key technologies in vogue now and promised to dig deeper into data management’s role in each of those technologies. To recap, I identified Blockchain...
View ArticleThe Data Forecast: Don’t Be Chris Burke
Every organization seems to have little things about their culture that makes the place unique. At one of my former employers, this took the form of people having balls that they would toss around or...
View ArticleIt’s All in the Data: Go Jump in a Lake
You’ve all heard the expression before: “Go jump in a lake.” It means the same thing as “Get out-ta town” or “I don’t believe you”. These days many organizations are jumping into a lake – a Data Lake –...
View ArticleThe Book Look: After Action Review – Continuous Improvement Made Easy
Sometimes we read a book that contains fundamental yet powerful ideas. Ideas that we might have been aware of, and maybe even applied informally at one point, but needed to see it in print to make it...
View ArticleData and Trending Technologies: Artificial Intelligence Is All About Data
Artificial Intelligence Is All About Data! It’s Real (And Not Fake) NewVantage Partners’ annual Big Data Executive Survey reveals that 88.5% of top executives surveyed believe that Artificial...
View ArticleData is Risky Business: I’m a Doctor, Jim …
In Star Trek, DeForest Kelley use to exclaim “I’m a Doctor Jim, not an engineer” or something similar whenever Captain Kirk asked him to do anything that was not in the scope of his medical practice....
View ArticleThe Book Look: Blockchainopoly
I am a data modeler…and plan on always being a data modeler. My latest book however, just released last week, is a book on blockchain called Blockchainopoly. A couple of questions you might have: —...
View ArticleData Professional Introspective: Do This to Be the Toast of the Town
You are a data management professional, so we know you are a hero already. But if you’d like to be crowned the Prom King or Queen, lavished with praise and recognition (perhaps bonuses, free vegan...
View ArticleAsk the Data Governance Coach: Do We Have to Call It Data Governance?
The question that I’m going to address in this column is one I get asked fairly regularly. Sadly however, there is no easy yes or no answer. There are a number of reasons for this: Data governance is a...
View ArticleDAMA International Community Corner: Enterprise Data World 2018
By the time you read this, the Enterprise Data World (EDW) 2018 conference will have come and gone and all the excitement of being in beautiful San Diego, listening to amazing people talk about their...
View ArticleData and Trending Technologies: Data and Internet of Things
Year after year, Internet of Things (IoT) continues to be in the top 5 technologies that companies are making significant investments in. As I noted in my initial article, Role of Data in Trending...
View ArticleThe Data Centric Revolution: Data Centric and Model Driven
Model Driven Development Model Driven seems to be enjoying a bit of an upsurge lately. Gartner has recently been hyping (is it fair to accuse the inventors of the hype curve of hyping something? or is...
View ArticleData is Risky Business: Ethics at the Core of a Data-Driven World
There is a famous Dilbert cartoon from a few years ago in which Dogbert provides Dilbert’s company with advice on how they can generate revenue from the information they hold about their customers, but...
View ArticleData Professional Introspective: Organizational Factors Impacting EDM
“Money won’t save you, no, no, no, no, no.” – Reggae artist Jimmy Cliff, 1974. In fact, money, insofar as it underwrites the complex data environment that well-heeled organizations typically possess,...
View ArticleThe Book Look: Controlling the Chaos
If I was to describe the book, Controlling the Chaos: A Functional Framework for Enterprise Architecture and Governance, in one word, it would be “content-rich” (really two words, but it is hyphenated...
View ArticleData and Trending Technologies: Role of Data in Digital Twin Technology
One of the main reasons I am excited about my ongoing column ‘Data and Trending Technologies’ on TDAN.com is that I get to explore the latest technologies such as blockchain, Internet of Things, and...
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