In the first two blogs of the series, I wrote about staying non-invasive in your approach to data governance, and how data governance should not threaten work culture. In this blog, I will address how to select and adopt an approach to data governance that best suits...
What is CDO 4.0? Recently, Gartner released a classification that defines a new ideal mindset for Chief Data Officers (CDOs)— what Gartner is calling "CDO 4.0." In Gartner’s words, this new type of CDO should have a focus on their organization’s core product, moving...
This article is the second of a five-part series on data governance from Robert S. Seiner of KIK Consulting & TDAN.com. Your People Already Govern Data I often start my live presentation by asking the question: “By show of hands, how many of your organizations are...
This article is the first of a five-part series on data governance from Robert S. Seiner of KIK Consulting & TDAN.com. Three Types of Data Governance There are three distinct approaches to implementing data governance in an organization. The first approach is...
Many are familiar with a certain TV show where the premise of each episode was to take several widely held beliefs or pieces of lore, and then put them to the test in a lighthearted and (arguably) scientific manner. At the end of the day, was the belief confirmed,...
A Data Architect’s Guide to the Data Catalog Modernizing data architecture is one of the key challenges for those organizations pursuing the advantages of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML). Data architecture for Business Intelligence (BI) was...
As data cataloging has matured and gone mainstream the diversity of data catalogs has expanded, with data catalogs embedded in many data preparation and data analysis tools. The embedded data catalogs offer some advantages of technology integration. They create a new...
As organizations become more data driven and the scope of data consumers expands through self-service, data literacy and data fluency have become valuable organizational competencies. Current events throughout the world are escalating the value of these competencies...