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…
Data Governance playbooks for 2024
Back in 2020, I offered up some thoughts for consideration around generic or homogenous data governance playbooks. Revisit it if you care to. This was in…
Decoding Data Mesh: A Structured Approach to Decentralized Customer Master Data Management
Data Mesh seems to be all the rage in data governance circles and although it is a relatively new concept in data architecture it aims…
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 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…
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.…
How to get your business stakeholders to want and use a Data Glossary
Getting a data glossary in place can take a lot of hard work and effort, so it can be particularly frustrating if/when your business users…
Do I really need data governance when I’m doing Master Data Management?
This is a question that I have been asked many times over the years and my answer is always an unequivocal “yes”! Of course that…
What makes a good Data Governance consultant?
Over the last few weeks, I’ve been trying to come up with a list of skills that a good Data Governance consultant needs. Not necessarily…
Data Governance Interview with Rob Saundby
I have been working in IT for over twenty years, of which the last ten have been specialising in data management. During this time, I…
Do you know what is in a Data Governance Framework?
If you are reading this blog, then there is a very high chance that at some point in the not-too-distant past you have googled the…