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,...
September 16, 2024
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Jim Walery
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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...
August 21, 2024
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Jim Walery
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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...
August 06, 2024
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Jim Walery
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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...
July 10, 2024
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Jim Walery
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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...
June 18, 2024
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Jim Walery
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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...
June 11, 2024
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Jim Walery
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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...
We were recently reintroduced to the "5 Whys" concept, which we first learned of many years ago as part of Lean Six Sigma training. When it's appropriate, it can be an elegant and useful tool to...
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April 22, 2024
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Jim Walery
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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...
April 04, 2024
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Aaron Walker
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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,...
March 19, 2024
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Jim Walery
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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...
February 27, 2024
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Jim Walery
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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’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...
January 05, 2024
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Jim Walery
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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...
December 06, 2023
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Aaron Walker
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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...
November 15, 2023
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Jim Walery
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Let us think about what an organization’s report request process might look like in terms of effort if you are trying to implement a certain amount of diligence. If we are a report writer and we are...
Your organization faces numerous challenges as it makes its way towards analytics maturity. We are deliberately using that phrase loosely, since what that maturity looks like for your organization...
We found ourselves at a trade show last week, and we were amazed as usual by the variety and creativity of software and solutions available. We found ourselves near a company that among other things...
October 11, 2023
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Organizations are constantly generating and gathering vast amounts of data. And this data is critical to the success of the organization. The amount of data makes it challenging for employees to...
September 26, 2023
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Management at your organization might have the assumption that data governance creates a lot of extra work. That is not a totally false assumption. There is effort necessary for data governance and...
September 20, 2023
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Jim Walery
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This is a different kind of blog post for me. I feel that every person in an organization that works with data (that is almost everyone) is part of the data governance team. This blog post will...
September 13, 2023
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Aaron Walker
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Recently we discussed the concept of data sprawl. We find ourselves very much in the era of data sprawl, with so much data available for capture, so many specialized tools for its collection and...
As long as the notion of big data has been around, we have known that organizations of all sizes are exposed to more data, more quickly, across more systems and platforms. (These are the three Vs:...