Category: Data Governance Fundamentals

The Case for an Enterprise Architect in your Data Governance Program

When I think about information architecture, I cannot help but compare it to the various forms of architecture in the physical world. Structures range from simple tents and tarps to soaring sky scrapers. In fact the original version of this entry started as I thought back on the scrap-wood tree houses we built as kids [...]

Monday February 22nd, 2010 in Communication, Data Governance Fundamentals, Data Management, Data Modeling, Uncategorized | No Comments »

Confusing What’s Urgent with What’s Important

Recently an acquaintance summed up data governance as “trying to do what is important, while be sidetracked by what is urgent.” To me this was an interesting observation, because it sums up a paradox associated with data governance. Resolving urgent data quality issues uses so many resources, there are often none left to implement the [...]

Monday December 7th, 2009 in Data Governance Fundamentals, Data Management, Data Quality | No Comments »

Key Date-Time Stamps and Why They Matter

Have you ever considered how important the mundane time-stamp is to your BI operations? Think about it, every report includes the element of time in it. The report is a snapshot in time, or covers a range of time. Accurate and timely business intelligence requires good records of the history within your business processes. The [...]

Wednesday November 11th, 2009 in Data Governance Fundamentals, Data Management, Data Quality, risk management | No Comments »

Minimizing What is Governed – Shortening the Path to Action

Recently I was booking air travel and some of the options struck me as odd routes. You know, going to your destination with two lay-over’s and a plane change. Oh and it takes about twice as long as a direct flight while the difference in price is minimal. So if we would not book our [...]

Tuesday July 21st, 2009 in Data Governance Fundamentals, Prime Business Decision Loop, Simple Data Governance | No Comments »

Practical Data Governance – Getting to Action

Four Steps to Action Two things many of my readers are searching for are a good definition for data steward, and a practical path to actionable data governance. This entry addresses the latter. While there is no silver bullet, here are four steps you can take after you get your senior management support.

Thursday July 9th, 2009 in Communication, Data Governance Fundamentals, Data Quality, Simple Data Governance | No Comments »

Governance and Innovation – Complimentary or Contradictory

On LinkedIn, the following question was posted by Asad Quraishi in the IT Governance Group discussions. Does IT governance promote innovation? There’s enough compelling research demonstrating the value of governance to the bottom line. This ranges from studies showing that firms using IT governance best practices are 20% more profitable than their peers to showing [...]

Thursday June 18th, 2009 in Data Governance Fundamentals, Data Management, Data Modeling | No Comments »

How to Govern Data – A Simple Method to Implement Governance

Some time ago, while working with a large data warehouse, I formulated a simple method to govern data. The method was introduced as part of our Basel II work and was required by our Basel II Risk Management Policy. Subsequently as we were validating our plans for a data governance program, it was reviewed and [...]

Friday June 12th, 2009 in Data Governance Fundamentals, Organizational Behavior, Simple Data Governance | No Comments »

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