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Has your ability to manage risk scaled with your systems?

Funny thing about large data systems, everyone knows the benefits scale due to the application of technology, but many companies turn a blind eye to the fact that so do the risks. Complacency and arrogance (C&A) team up to teach us occasional lessons to learn from, and if the screw-up in grand enough it may [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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