TDAN

MARCH 16, 2021

The purpose of this article is to provide a model to conduct a self-assessment of your organization’s data environment when preparing to build your Data Governance program. Take the […].

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NOVEMBER 2, 2021

What is Data Governance and How Do You Measure Success? Data governance is a system for answering core questions about data. It begins with establishing key parameters: What is data, who can use it, how can they use it, and why? But what […].

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Octopai

APRIL 19, 2021

Aptly named, metadata management is the process in which BI and Analytics teams manage metadata, which is the data that describes other data. In other words, data is the context and metadata is the content. Without metadata, BI teams are unable to understand the data’s full story.

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TDAN

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Ensuring data quality is an important aspect of data management and these days, DBAs are increasingly being called upon to deal with the quality of the data in their database systems more than ever before. The importance of quality data cannot be overstated.

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TDAN

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Whether it’s financial data, personal health information, or customer data, organizations that generate and manage data must implement a comprehensive data governance strategy. A robust data governance policy ensures compliance and security and improves the quality of Business […]

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TDAN

JUNE 30, 2020

You may already have a formal Data Governance program in place. Or … you are presently going through the process of trying to convince your Senior Leadership or stakeholders that a formal Data Governance program is necessary. Maybe you are going through the process of convincing the stakeholders that Data […].

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TDAN

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

There is … but one … Data Governance. Maybe you are one of those that believe that there is something called Master Data Governance, Information Governance, Metadata Governance, Big Data Governance, Customer [or insert domain name here] Data Governance, Data Governance 1.0 – 2.0 – 3.0, […].

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TDAN

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

I delivered this series of questions focused on relating their need for an over-arching data strategy with the […]. The purpose of the Q&A was to assist her with determining the most appropriate messaging to share across the company.

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TDAN

JULY 6, 2021

A question was raised in a recent webinar about the role of the Data Architect and Data Modelers in a Data Governance program. My webinar with Dataversity was focused on Data Governance Roles as the Backbone of Your Program.

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TDAN

APRIL 5, 2022

Data Governance is defined as the execution and enforcement of authority over the management of data and data-related assets.1 1 The terms “Data Mesh” and “Data Fabric” are the most recent examples of names being given to something that describes techniques to help organizations manage their data.

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TDAN

JUNE 18, 2019

Is your organization struggling to succeed with your Data Governance program? Data Governance occurs best when done in conjunction with the business processes and not as a “bolt on”/additional activity. Is adoption by the business an issue for you?

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TDAN

JANUARY 14, 2020

Recording requirements for success is an important first step toward demonstrating the value of a Data Governance program. Practitioners know that Data Governance requires planning, resources, money and time and that several of these objects are in short supply.

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TDAN

AUGUST 15, 2023

Yes, let’s talk about data governance, that thing we love to hate. I just attended the 17th Annual Chief Data Officer and Information Quality Symposium in July, and there, I heard many creative suggestions for renaming data governance.

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TDAN

JULY 4, 2023

From Bob Seiner’s first book, Non-Invasive Data Governance, we learned how to get the benefits of data governance without making major changes to our job roles or functions. We avoid the “command and control” approaches and still have people responsible for the organization’s data without reorgs or undue employee stress.

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TDAN

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

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?

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TDAN

JULY 19, 2022

Are you thinking about hiring or interviewing someone for a data governance or data intelligence role such as a Data Governance Manager or a Data Governance Coordinator? Maybe data governance as a whole is new to the organization. Maybe this is a new role in the organization.

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TDAN

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Both data governance and data management workflows are critical to ensuring the security and control of an organization’s most valuable asset— data. Is the positioning of data governance vs. data management correct? In this […].

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TDAN

OCTOBER 19, 2021

I last published my Data Governance Bill of “Rights” in a TDAN.com article circa 2017. I mentioned in the earlier piece that Data Governance is all about doing the “right” thing when it comes to managing your data. It’s all in the data. That seems like a long time ago.

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TDAN

APRIL 19, 2022

Top Down vs. Bottom Up Have you heard the terms “top-down” or “bottom-up” associated with approaches to Data Governance? If so, do you think top down is the only way to execute your Data Governance Program?

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TDAN

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Unfortunately a lot of data governance programs fail and there are many reasons why. The silver lining is that there are great lessons from these failures that we can learn from and make sure that we will avoid them in our data governance program.

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TDAN

APRIL 4, 2023

In part one of this column, I wrote about how organizations engage their data stewards as part of their formal data governance program. I mentioned that the data stewards do not always know how to behave as formal stewards.

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TDAN

AUGUST 31, 2021

A common misconception among c-level executives is that governance and management of data is the same thing other than in capital letters. Below, we will explore the main differences between Data Management […].

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TDAN

MARCH 2, 2021

What’s new in the world of non-invasive data governance? I participated in a couple of the question-and-answer sessions about Non-Invasive Data Governance as part of the promotion of my new two-day virtual live course and my involvement in a sold-out International Data Management Summit later this month.

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TDAN

JANUARY 17, 2023

Most organizations that are implementing formal data governance programs understand that it is important to engage their data stewards. Data stewards should not sit around waiting to be told what to do, nor should they be expected to know how to act as formal data stewards.

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TDAN

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Organizations faced with the delivery of formal Data Governance or Information Governance programs recognize that there are several challenges they will face when getting started and as the program is operationalized. The challenges are not the same for all organizations.

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TDAN

JANUARY 19, 2021

In October 2020, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) announced a $400 million civil monetary penalty against Citibank for deficiencies in enterprise-wide risk management, compliance risk management, data governance, and internal controls.

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TDAN

AUGUST 3, 2021

You’ve done Data Governance. But is it now time to systemize your Data Governance into an application? First, […].

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TDAN

MAY 2, 2023

Achieving Enterprise Data Awareness is a natural maturity progression within the governance domain. At this stage, companies rightly see Data Governance and Information Governance as a large metadata puzzle.

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TDAN

APRIL 30, 2019

Roles and responsibilities are the backbone of a successful information or data governance program. To communicate effectively […].

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TDAN

JUNE 30, 2020

Three companies from across the globe were recognized for their award-winning Data Governance programs.

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TDAN

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Modern data access governance is a delicate balancing act where organizations have to be both privacy-driven and data-driven, where business leaders have to secure user data and stay compliant, while also uncovering insight and optimizing operations. After all, data access management is a […].

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TDAN

JULY 2, 2019

The third and final part of the Non-Invasive Data Governance Framework details the breakdown of components by level, providing considerations for what must be included at the intersections. The squares are completed with nouns and verbs that provide direction for meaningful discussions about how the program will be set up and operate.

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TDAN

AUGUST 15, 2023

Anyone who knows me well knows that I like to build models with Legos as a diversion from my “data-ly” life. I was never fond of Legos when I was young, but started my Lego excursion when I saw a bright yellow Lego Ford Mustang kit that I had to have. Several years later, I […]

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TDAN

APRIL 2, 2019

If you are just starting out and feel overwhelmed by all the various definitions, explanations, and interpretations of data governance, don’t be alarmed. Even well-seasoned data governance veterans can struggle with the definition and explanation of what they do day to day.

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TDAN

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Over the past few months, my team in Castlebridge and I have been working with clients delivering training to business and IT teams on data management skills like data governance, data quality management, data modelling, and metadata management.

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TDAN

JUNE 1, 2021

I vividly remember reading this passage from Bob Seiner’s TDAN.com article “Things I Think I Think about Data Governance”, from August 1, 2015: If we were going to remove two words from the Data Governance vocabulary, I would choose the words “assign” and “owner.

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TDAN

JANUARY 5, 2021

In this age, data management has become a necessary routine. Organizations have started to uncover large sets of data in the form of Assets typically used for analysis and decision making. Understandably, Data Catalogs […].

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