Posts tagged: data governance

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 [...]

Tuesday May 31st, 2011 in , , , , , , | 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 , , , , , , , | 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 , , , , , , , , , | 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 , , , , , , , , , , | 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 , , , , , , , , | 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 , , , , , , , | No Comments »

The Gap Between Perception and Reality

In order for any IT pro to really enjoy watching NCIS, they have to suspend reality particularly when McGee goes into action. Not action in the field, rather when he instantly gets into databases and merges the results to discover the trail of the villain. It really is BI nirvana.

Tuesday January 19th, 2010 in , , , , , , | No Comments »

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