Posts tagged: industrial psychology

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 , , , , , , , , , | 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 , , , , , , , , , | 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 »

Data Governance and The Laws of Physics

As much as developers would like to believe that they have total creative license, they really are bound to some degree by the underpinnings of their development software. No matter the language, platform, or technology, somewhere along the line there are limiters on what a developer can do that govern their efforts. Solution developers will [...]

Tuesday May 12th, 2009 in , , , , , , , , | No Comments »

Data Governance and Industrial / Organizational Psychology

Much has been written about the technical side of data governance, but we continue to give minimal treatment to the human side of the equation. I think that is in part due to the fact that as IT professionals, we tend to look for technical solutions to problems. But what do you do when the [...]

Friday March 6th, 2009 in , , , , | No Comments »

Stick Figures

Technology workers often overlook the human element of any solution. We are quick to assemble an architecture diagram with servers, SAN space, and .NET applications; but what is almost always conspicuously missing are the people to run them and use them. These days I find it hard to resist the temptation during meetings to jump [...]

Monday January 12th, 2009 in , , , , , , , , , , | No Comments »

Is your IT shop a rebellious teen?

Sitting around with some developers recently and I asked why they were hesitant to embrace data governance. They acknowledged that there was good to be gained from it, but they felt they would be too constrained if they had to follow a bunch of governance rules. A woman in our group stated that they sounded [...]

Tuesday July 1st, 2008 in , , , , , , , , | No Comments »

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