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…
Top 7 Benefits And Practices To Drive Progress In Data Governance
Data Governance emerges as a leading contender in enabling businesses to effectively leverage the data revolution. By instilling structure and coherence in the utilization of…
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…