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Data Governance Program: Ensuring a Successful Delivery

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And while IT should never be the data owner for business data, research from Digital Trailblazer author and former CIO Isaac Sacolick shows that 40 percent of business leaders “just want IT to fix the data and deliver reports.” Sacolick recommends that data leaders “Remember to ‘Keep It Simple, Stupid.’

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8 Reasons Why Digital Transformations Fail (11 CIOs Weigh In)

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To ensure the success of what author Geoffrey Moore calls “the transformation zone”, everyone needs to be on board with the changes. ” 6.

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How a cloud-first enterprise application strategy boosts speed and scale for your business

CIO Business Intelligence

“Cloud-first implementations help shift the entire organization’s focus from the nuts and bolts of operating legacy systems to digital experiences, collaborative workflows, and real-time data,” says Isaac Sacolick (@nyike) , president of StarCIO and a digital transformation leader and influencer.

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CIOs Make the Business Case for a Data Catalog

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In this new remote-work era, former CIO Isaac Sacolick argues that IT teams need to do three things: Catalog and label data (they need to know where it is, and the data’s sensitivity). This problem is what Sacolick calls dark data. Identify data owners (even if they’re not ready to handle the responsibilities, and.

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Self-Service BI vs Traditional BI: What’s Next?

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One of our authors participated in one such project during that period.). Former CIO Isaac Sacolick reflects on this data-inefficient past: “Remember the days when reporting was centralized in IT? This is why author and consultant Geoffrey Moore famously argued that software move from systems of record to systems of engagement.

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Better, faster decisions: Why businesses thrive on real-time data

CIO Business Intelligence

Better decisions come from people trusting that the data reflects evolving customer needs and captures an accurate state of operations.” — Isaac Sacolick ( @nyike ), StarCIO Leader and Author of Digital Trailblazer “Organizations must use a system that draws information across integrated applications.

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The Role of the Data Catalog in Data Security

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Isaac Sacolick, Former Business Week CIO, agrees with the importance of data governance. The main challenge is articulating the importance and responsibilities to get people actively involved in data governance,” Sacolick concludes. He says IT teams must do three key things. Limit usage for BI, applications, etc.