Posts tagged: Data Quality

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 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 »

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 , , , , , | No Comments »

Where to Govern Data – Control Points in Information Flows

My last entry suggested that data governance is not a new problem. While exploring data governance, we are revisiting the issues encountered as society built out roads, and developed modern manufacturing processes. The only difference is what we are governing this time is data content instead of a physical thing. With that in mind, it [...]

Tuesday June 9th, 2009 in , , , , , , , , , , , | No Comments »

5 Simple Criteria to Determine What to Govern

With increasing frequency, people are asking, “what is a simple solution to data governance?” They, and likely you, are looking a silver bullet to bring order out of chaos. The ironic part of the problem is that it is not a new problem; rather it is an old recurring problem with a new name. What [...]

Wednesday May 27th, 2009 in , , , , | No Comments »

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