Data Professional Introspective: What Good Looks Like – Part 3
This column is next in the series of how organizations achieve and sustain significant improvements in fundamental data management disciplines in their journey to Great Data. Content and conclusions...
View ArticleData Professional Introspective: What Good Data Looks Like – Part 4
This column is next in the series of how organizations achieve and sustain significant improvements in fundamental data management disciplines, in their journey to Great Data. Content and...
View ArticleData Professional Introspective: Your Organization Can’t Create an EDM Strategy
Some countries successfully create long-term strategic plans. For example, China’s first 100-year plan was aimed at the elimination of extreme poverty by 2020. In 1980, there were 540M people living in...
View ArticleData Professional Introspective: What Good Data Look Like – Part 5
Let’s assume this scenario — Your organization has conducted an EDM Assessment. You now have detailed knowledge of your data management strengths, accomplishments, and capability gaps. Armed with that...
View ArticleData Professional Introspective: Data Provider Management – Part 2
Governance for Acquired Data / Selecting Sources Our next column in the series explores challenges with governing acquired data, and then we’ll introduce a framework for managing acquired data— the...
View ArticleData Professional Introspective: Data Provider Management – Part 3
In Part 1, we discussed the front end of the lifecycle – developing requirements for, and selecting data sources. In Part 2, we addressed the acquisition and management lifecycle framework, including:...
View ArticleData Professional Introspective: Capability Maturity Model Comparison
For the Enterprise Data Management Council (EDMC), I recently concluded a detailed comparison and mapping of the DMM to the DCAM with the Council’s Product Manager, employing the Soladatus modeling...
View ArticleData Professional Introspective: Conducting a DCAM Assessment
My company led a Data Management Assessment for a government agency this spring, using the Data Management Capability Assessment Model (DCAM), and delivered the final report at the end of May. In my...
View ArticleData Professional Introspective: Accelerating Enterprise Data Quality
My recent columns have focused on actionable initiatives that can both deliver business value, providing a tangible achievement, and raise the profile of the data management organization data...
View ArticleData Professional Introspective: Demystifying Data Culture
The term “data culture” is frequently used to describe a normative view about how an organization functions (or more precisely, should function) with respect to its data. The term is not particularly...
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