Data Governance

You may already have a formal Data Governance program in place. Then again, perhaps you don’t. Or … you are presently going through the process of trying to convince your Senior Leadership or stakeholders that a formal Data Governance program ...

One of the first steps organizations take when preparing to deliver a data governance program is to determine where in the organization data governance should be placed. Or in other words, who should own data governance? There are typically two ...

A client recently asked me to summarize the benefits of data governance and the three main elements of data governance into two slides to leverage and use for an upcoming board meeting associated with their emerging program. A lot has ...

Today we are visiting with data governance expert Sowmya Kandregula, Chief Data Officer at D.C.-area boutique consulting firm that specializes in integrating, consolidating and enriching data. 1. Where did you grow up? Go to school? I grew up in Vishakhapatnam, ...

The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has made the term “social distancing” central to our daily conversations. There have been guidelines issued, media campaigns run in prime time, new hashtags created, and memes shared to highlight how social distancing can save lives. ...

To Evangelize IG Programs Leaders Must Create a Compelling Narrative The road to IG ruin is paved with good intentions, both strategic and tactical. IG and Data Management efforts are rarely considered exciting, innovative or “sexy.” By contrast, Business Intelligence ...

  In the race to be at the top of data analytics, organizations are implementing measures that position them in a favorable spot. The key to extracting the most from your data is to have pertinent data governance policies in ...

  Data governance (DG) can be a challenging initiative for any enterprise launching such a program, but DG is also challenging for enterprises with a fairly mature program in place. There are a lot of success factors that need to ...

  The challenge: The need for a consistent, operationalized, defensible method for continuous assessment of data’s value, risk and compensating controls In today’s business environment, the most important strategic asset of any major enterprise is its data. Each enterprise has ...

  Dennis has worked in financial information management and change management in global organisations with an international career spanning more years than he’d like to admit. He has lived and worked in London, Hong Kong (five years), Osaka (five years) ...

  Business Intelligence (BI) became part of the core focus of IT departments in the late 1980s. BI encompasses a wide range of practices, technologies, and applications. Together, they help companies collect, analyze, and present information that, in turn, helps ...

  As a business or technology person, if you have not been inundated by discussions of Robotic Process Automation (RPA), Machine Learning (ML), and/or Artificial Intelligence (AI) over the last few years, then you might be hiding under the proverbial ...

Master data management (MDM) is a key process for IG success in the IT department, which extends to involved business units. An emerging discipline, MDM came into prominence around 2010 to 2012, coinciding with the Big Data trend. The goal ...

I’ve worked in data governance most of my career—even before we had the term “data governance” (DG). Originally, I suppose we called it commonsense. It’s not second nature to everyone, so the DG discipline was built and evolved. It ...

  A key element of data governance (DG) is collaboration. DG is not something that someone does alone, and it’s not a group of people you ask to fix data after you’ve made a mess of it. I talk about ...

  At the recent World Economic Forum held at the Davos resort in Switzerland, global data governance (DG) and tech sector regulation were major topics. The strongest call for tech regulation came from Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, setting the ...

  With the tsunamic rise in electronic information doubling at regular intervals, complexity in information management has resulted in newly created or redefined roles tasked with creating order out of chaos. Information professionals attempt to control their domains in roles ...

Nine key steps you can take to govern data effectively are: 1. Recruit a strong executive sponsor. As in broader IG efforts, data governance (DG) requires cross-functional collaboration with a variety of stakeholders. To drive and facilitate this sometimes ...

“I enjoy solving problems with practical solutions and I like working with people who are passionate about improving how their organizations operate. ” Today we caught up with Bob Seiner in Pittsburgh. Bob is President and Principal Consultant of KIK Consulting ...

GDPR was a tsunami for businesses across the globe. And now that it has crashed upon the shore, the search to locate and secure personal data has become paramount. Since many businesses are not quite up to the task, here ...

An excerpt from Robert Smallwood’s upcoming book, Information Governance: Concepts, Strategies, & Best Practices, 2nd Edition (Wiley, 2019) There has been a great deal of confusion around the term Information Governance (IG), and how it is distinct from data governance. ...

Recently, I heard someone speak about the four horsemen of the apocalypse. The original four horsemen of the apocalypse are described in the last book of the New Testament of the Bible as death, famine, war, and conquest, as a symbolic prophecy of ...