Posts tagged: oversight

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 »

Someone has to be the Mom

Last week I was talking with one of my brothers and he commented that there are a lot of parallels between large families and business organizations. We both have good frames of reference having worked in IT and being 2 of 11 kids, so we started comparing family stories to data governance lessons learned. It [...]

Monday April 20th, 2009 in , , , , , , , , | No Comments »

Closing Communication Gaps

Why has it become so challenging for corporate America to establish effective internal communication? Meeting goals and objectives seems increasingly problematic. A common workplace perception is others block progressive efforts either intentionally or through incompetence. Could the technology we designed be pushing us further apart rather than uniting our organizations? Is the specialization of the [...]

Sunday March 30th, 2008 in , , , , , , , , | No Comments »

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