How To Select The Right Data Governance Tool
There are many tools on the market now that can help you with your data governance initiative. In particular, there are numerous products that hold…
Data Governance Interview with Jorg Schorning
In this interview, Jorg Schorning has been kind enough to share his experiences working in Data Governance. Jorg has been working since 1987 in mostly…
How Long Will My Data Governance Initiative Take?
In this article, I want to answer a question that I am asked several times every week. To be honest, it’s not an unreasonable question,…
Critical Data and Master Data – what is the difference?
There is a lot of confusion about the difference between critical data and master data, so in this article Nicola Askham, The Data Governance Coach, e…
Data Owners and Data Stewards – What is the difference?
There is a lot of confusion over the difference between Data Owners ad Data Steward and whether you need both. In this article, Nicola Askham, The Dat…
How To Find The Right Data Owners
One of the most frequent questions I get asked is how to find the right people to be the Data Owners. Anyone who has ever tried to implement Data Gove…
Do You Need To Prioritise Your Data?
Is it correct to try to proactively manage all your data? Would it be better to prioritise some of your data as more important? Nicola Askham, The Dat…
Why you need Data Governance
When you tell people what Data Governance is you get a range of reactions from surely everyone does that already - to why would you need that? This ar…
Does it have to be called Data Governance?
Data Governance is unfortunately not an exciting title and in no way conveys the benefits that an organisation can achieve by implementing Data Govern…
What should you include in a Data Governance initiative?
One of the many challenges you will have to face when implementing Data Governance is agreeing the scope of the initial phase of your initiative. By t…
How to write a good Data Governance Policy
Lots of people think that you can fast track writing a Data Governance Policy by using a template or copying one written for someone else. This articl…
What’s the difference between Data Owners and Data Custodians?
There is a lot of confusion about the roles of Data Owners and Data Custodians. How the roles are different and who should be fulfilling them. This ar…