Category: Data Management

When you outsourced your data management, did you also add new risks to your business?

A recent Associated Press headline touted that a Study warns US must develop cyber intelligence.  Being that Information Security is one of the pillars of Information Governance, the article should raise alarm bells for some businesses. Many businesses have been so intent on containing costs, that in the rush to outsource more and more of [...]

Monday September 12th, 2011 in Cloud Computing, Data Governance Fundamentals, Data Management, risk management | No Comments »

Data Governance Responsibility and Accountablity: The RACI Waterfall

In the course of a great conversation on Data Governance with Max Gano of Stakeholder Care, we began discussing the application of controls. Max had some great thinking on how they fit into the realm of Data Governance. The conversation reminded me of a RACI Waterfall that I had created a few years back. The [...]

Friday January 21st, 2011 in Cloud Computing, Communication, Data Governance Fundamentals, Data Management, Organizational Behavior, RACI, Uncategorized | No Comments »

Value Proposition: Why do I need to do Data Governance now?

Recently an associate commented that perhaps we could better gain buy-in by answering the question “why now?” Adding the dimension of time was an interesting twist on spelling out the value proposition. After all, many businesses operations have been running fine for years with only ad-hoc data governance processes.  What would be the risk of [...]

Monday December 13th, 2010 in Data Governance Fundamentals, Data Management, risk management | No Comments »

Data Ownership vs. Data Stewardship

Over the last several years, there has been quite a bit of discussion regarding the distinction between data ownership and data stewardship. Stewardship commonly involves the daily and routine care-taking of all aspects of data systems. The roles are highly distributed. Ownership on the other hand is more concentrated. If you want to find the [...]

Friday August 27th, 2010 in Data Governance Fundamentals, Data Management, Data Quality, Organizational Behavior, risk management, Simple Data Governance | No Comments »

Will Cloud Computing Drive Data Standards and Governance?

A recent Information Management article by  Steve Hoberman, explored the impact of cloud computing on data modeling.  I think he makes some very good points about the impact on data integration, in particular the importance of managing the semantic layer.  If we take this to be true, then those who expect to excel in the [...]

Thursday March 25th, 2010 in Cloud Computing, Data Governance Fundamentals, Data Management, Data Modeling, Metadata | No Comments »

Data Steward and Data Custodian Definitions

Of all the posts on my blog, the one that draws the most interest is my humorous story about the definition of data steward and data custodian. Commonly, people find it while looking for a good definition and list of responsibilities for a data steward or data custodian. The following is being posted to help [...]

Wednesday March 3rd, 2010 in Data Governance Fundamentals, Data Management, Data Quality, Metadata, Simple Data Governance | No Comments »

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 »

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