Why is Data Governance Training so Expensive?

Data Governance is a critical function for organisations looking to manage their data effectively and ensure compliance with a growing array of regulations. However, many…

Silent Disability and Inclusivity in The Workplace

Did you know it’s Deaf Awareness Week?  In honour of this brilliant initiative to raise awareness about the issues affecting deaf people, I wanted to…

Is Data Governance a Service or an Enabler?

In the realm of data management, the debate over whether data governance is primarily a service or an enabler has sparked discussions and diverse opinions.…

Who Should Be Involved in Your Data Governance Framework?

When designing your data governance framework, a mistake I often see is that not enough consideration is given to who should be involved in the…

Defining Data Definitions and How to Write Them

Have you ever stopped to wonder what a “data definition” actually is? It’s one of those terms that we often toss around in the world…

Defining Data Definitions and How to Write Them

Have you ever stopped to wonder what a “data definition” actually is? It’s one of those terms that we often toss around in the world…

Navigating Data Mesh and Evolving Data Governance: A Practical Guide

In my previous blog, I examined the concept of Data Mesh and its relationship with Data Governance. Now, let’s take a closer look at practical…

Understanding the Basics of Data Mesh and its Impact on Data Governance

In the rapidly evolving landscape of data management, a term has emerged that is simultaneously intriguing and confusing: Data Mesh. If you find yourself puzzled…

The First Six Months of Your New Data Governance Initiative

If you’re considering starting a Data Governance initiative, you may be wondering what the first six months of work might look like – and that…

What are the key components of a data culture?

Data culture is the collective behaviours and beliefs of people who value, practice and encourage the use of data to improve decision-making. As a result,…

Data Governance Know How

Embarking on a journey in Data Governance can feel isolating and overwhelming. It’s very common in this field to struggle to find a sense of…

How the COM-B Model for behaviour change can be used when implementing Data Governance

The biggest mistake I see in organisations implementing Data Governance failing to address culture change as part of their initiative. This mistake is by far…

How to identify Data Owners, where multiple areas of the organisation use the same data?

Identifying Data Owners is something that many people struggle with when they are starting out in Data Governance. When multiple different teams use that data…

Data Governance Interview with ChatGPT

Back in 2021 I wrote this blog about why you need to have Data Governance in place before your organisation embraces Artificial Intelligence (AI). There…

What is a Data Office?

The answer to this question is going to be quite short and succinct, much like the question itself… A ‘Data Office’, in my opinion, is…

Is Access Management part of Data Governance?

I was emailed the question recently and, in my haste, to provide an answer, I simply replied ‘no, it is not – Access Management is…

Critical Data Elements and How Much Data Do We Have to Hold About Them?

Such are the demands of modern business it is important to understand that we cannot put the same level of data governance onto all data…

Who owns the Data in a Data Warehouse?

A lot of the confusion that rises around data governance is organisations trying to figure out who owns what data and who is responsible for…

What is Data Wrangling?

If you are a regular follower of my videos and blogs, you will know that one of my key aims is to help explain the…

Guest blog - Data science and data governance: collaboration for trustworthy data insights

Data scientists are storytellers. They gather data from a variety of sources, clean and combine that data, and use their programming, math, statistical and analytical…

Who Owns the Data that Appears in Your Reports or Dashboards?

If you’ve ever read any of my previous blogs on data ownership, you’ll probably know that I feel quite categorically, from my many years of…

Data Governance Interview with Miles Reah by Nicola Askham, The Data Governance Coach

My name is Miles Reah and I have worked as a data governance consultant predominately in investment banking but more recently in insurance and healthcare.…

The Rocky Horror Data Show: Did you get what you asked for?

Data shouldn’t be a wild and untamed thing, but sometimes it is just that – wild… and untamed. And unfortunately for our friend Tim, he’s…

Can I use our existing IT Incident Management Process for Data Quality issues?

Getting to the root of a data quality issue I’ve recently been going over with a client the pros and cons of utilising their IT…

Why does my company need Data Governance?

If you plan to implement data governance in your organisation, it’s really important to understand why you are doing it. This can often be a…

Data Governance Interview with Karima Makrof

Karima Makrof started off as a consultant focused on Oracle ERP implementations, before moving onto the soft(er) side with diverse roles within data governance, data…

What is the number one Data Governance mistake?

Nine years ago, I wrote a report detailing what I believe to be some of the biggest mistakes you can make when implementing data governance.…