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We speak to current and potential clients regularly about the critical role data stewards play in data governance: developing policies, enforcing standards, guaranteeing data quality and legibility,...

There are six key elements (goals, roadmap, buy-in, content, points of engagement, and data stewardship) that we say are needed for organizational data governance (and data intelligence) success. We...

It’s football season, and if you watch games, you’ve probably seen something like this. It’s fourth down, deep in your opponent's territory. Should you go for it? Should you attempt a field goal? How...

We recently recorded a few webinars focused on data quality, specifically how data quality management--whatever that looks like at your organization--fits into data intelligence activities and a data...

In this blog post we will discuss data culture at an organization, particularly the elements necessary to have a data culture. These elements include leadership, knowledgebase, access, tools,...

We attended an industry event recently, and during the meet and greet portion we got to talking about what we do. The minute we mentioned "data governance," the response was something like: "you mean...

In this blog post we will discuss the importance of open access to the data about data. Having staff access to data about data should be part of the data governance and data-driven culture at your...

Nearly everyone, it seems, understands that organizations perform better when they make evidence-based and data-informed decisions. A data-driven or data-enabled culture is essential for improving...

Data intelligence includes a framework with people and processes along with content designed to help people access, understand, connect, protect, and effectively use an organization’s data across all...

For many, many years now, part of the prevailing business discourse has been that data-driven or data-enabled companies and organizations outperform their peers and competitors. Why is that? In...

There is a great deal of data governance-related content including reference data, business glossary, report specifications, policy documentation, data requests, data system inventory, reference...

A data intelligence or data governance initiative at an organization involves change and is not easy to perform. Acknowledge that change is difficult. You understand that any change is complex to...

Achieving a data governance or data culture is critical for an organization. Culture is many things but it must be created with training and policies and management. In this blog post we will provide...

When we introduced the Data Cookbook, one of our goals was to help clients solve a problem they all had with requesting and providing data. We observed that users who wanted data would describe the...

Data governance and data intelligence is not just about content. It is not just about having the information. It is about having processes to help keep that information up to date and a knowledge...

Clients often come to us for data governance assistance after they have migrated to a major new software solution, or after they have deployed significant upgrades to their BI stack (a new warehouse,...

A key goal of data governance is to increase data literacy and trust. And a business glossary is important in delivering this goal. But organizations have a challenge in updating the business...

We described the concept and the value of a data catalog in this space recently, and made an arbitrary distinction between cataloging data assets--the actual data elements themselves and the systems...

People (Human Resources) are an important part of data governance and data intelligence. They are part of the necessary framework. Data governance is about helping people and providing guidance....

It seems like every day we're hearing about data products, or data as a product. The terms have certainly crept into our vocabulary and we have the distinct impression we're using them more often....

It’s been a while since we have talked about data requests. An established data request process is an important part of data governance and should provide accurate and trusted information. Often one...

We did our review and here are the top 12 most viewed blog posts in 2023 from our IData Insights Blog about Data Management, Data Intelligence, and Data Governance. There was quite a variety of...

Let us be among the first to wish you a happy new year. Here's hoping it's productive and rewarding. As with many organizations, we are spending a little time, at the end of last year and the...

One reason we don't get as much out of our data as we could is that we don't trust it. In this blog post we will cover why we don't trust our data. We will also discuss a single source of truth and...