This blog post will discuss best practices when creating, monitoring, and reviewing a survey, either an internal survey to employees of your company, or to customers of your organization or to...
Jim Walery
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We have a great deal of resources (blog posts, videos, and recorded webinars) related to a variety of topics and components in data governance (or what we call data intelligence).
Topics include: ...
A data governance and data intelligence initiative is very important to an organization. And for the initiative to succeed it needs to have a trained staff and communication to those involved which...
Communication is key in data intelligence and data governance success. Communication with employees should be ongoing and when an employee is hired. Spread the word. Explain to every level in your...
In this blog post we will discuss what should be included on a data intelligence and data governance portal (or web page) and how often that data governance training should be done. Previously we did...
A finished report that was requested or a published business glossary entry are examples of front office data governance-related deliverables. But there is a lot of work that goes into the creation...
A successful organization needs to have trained employees. And part of this, you need know who you are training and what you need to train them on. Everybody does not need to know everything. Every...
Building a technology tool inventory will be beneficial to your organization. This post describes the benefits of having a technology tool inventory, steps we recommend to build your technology tool...
How to measure data intelligence and data governance at an organization is a big topic and probably too big a subject to do in one blog post. And the measurements will be different due to size of the...
A business glossary is important for any organization as it is used by such individuals as business users, self-service users, data architects, department managers, new employees, and data governance...
An organization must concern itself with regulatory challenges (defense) as well as adapt to changing market demands, different situations, and new competition (offense). In American Football and...
There are many methods to create data governance content at an organization. Some methods are easier than others. Some methods require a great deal of human touch whiles others do not. Some methods...
In this blog post we will discuss that organizations should take a customer service and just-in-time approach to data governance and data intelligence. Your organization needs to realize that despite...
Value is only added if there is engagement with the data governance-related content that supports your organization’s goal. This blog post will discuss the points of engagement (or entry) with data...
Very few organizations have all the technical and functional data stewards in place to handle the ever-increasing data-related questions and requests. Therefore, a search for new data stewards is...
Think about data governance like you do about tech support or a help desk (ticketing) system, which is something that most of you are very familiar with. In this blog post we will discuss how they...
In this blog post we will discuss the concept of data governance implementation iterations as well as content creation prioritization and the unexpected return in trust. This involves framework,...
In this blog post we will discuss how data governance and data intelligence is something that is on-going and not a project that is done and put on the shelf somewhere. Data governance content...
We often hear that organizations were not able to get adoption of data governance or get people to use the knowledge base. In this blog post we will discuss how content creation is key to adoption of...
In this blog post we will discuss the benefits of versioning for your data governance and data intelligence content (such as report specifications, business glossary, technical definitions, and data...
In this blog post we will discuss the organization culture that will maximize the benefit of data intelligence and data governance at all levels. And that data intelligence needs to be a part of your...
There is a great deal of data governance content that needs to be managed and curated. This requires operations. You probably have a goal to increase your data governance content on a regular basis....
Data should be managed by those with responsibility for its collection, processing, maintenance, and appropriate use. Data intelligence requires concentrated leadership, broad participation by those...
We are a firm believer of just-in-time data intelligence. In this blog post we will cover less expensive, smarter ways to do data intelligence (data governance) over the more typical (and more...
A data governance and data intelligence initiative is very important to an organization. This initiative or effort needs to be managed and have oversight. We have written some blog posts, created...