Tag Archives: knowledgebase

Survey Best Practices

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...

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Why Don't We Trust Our Data? And What Can We Do about It?

One of the reasons we got into this business was a desire to help organizations make better use of data. Over the years we have worked with hundreds of organizations to introduce data into the...

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Understanding Data Governance Points of Engagement

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...

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Getting Data Steward Acceptance

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...

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Help Desk Approach to Data Governance

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...

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The Concept of Data Governance Implementation Iterations

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,...

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Data Governance is No Binder on a Shelf

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...

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Content Creation and Data Governance Adoption

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...

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Data Governance Content Versioning

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...

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Capabilities Necessary in a Data Governance or Data Intelligence Solution

A data governance (or data intelligence) solution is an important component of a data governance program.  The primary purpose ofa data governance solution is to help people at the organization...

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The Many Uses of a Data Processing (Data Flow) Catalog

A key part of data governance is to have an easily accessible knowledge base. Important content of this knowledge base is a data processing catalog. Some call this a report catalog or a data flow...

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Gaining Efficiencies with Data Governance

Data governance helps have the right data with the right quality to the right person at the right time at the right cost. This is efficiency. It is safe to say that if an organization has poor data...

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Benefits and Best Practices of Reference Data Management

Reference data (or valid value lists) is a special type of data and is an important part of data quality and data governance (or as we call it data intelligence). Reference data lists can be used in...

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Discover and Know Your Data

Data is an important asset at all organizations – no matter what their business, their size, or their structure. Without data, an organization would not exist, so the decisions made about data are...

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Connected Data Governance Content Increases Benefit

You have all this data governance (data intelligence) content (definitions, specifications, data dictionary items, business glossary items, data system inventory, data quality rules, etc.). All this...

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Determine Your Data Governance Framework

A framework helps an organization and its members on how to think and communicate about a project such as a data governance or data intelligence initiative.  And every organization need a data...

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Make Data Governance as Self-service as Possible

Your data governance and data intelligence activities should be as self-service as possible, just like self-service analytics and self-service IT support. Users at an organization should be able to...

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Data Governance Framework: Knowledge Base

One of the three components of the data governance (data intelligence) framework is having a knowledge base, a central repository, that is open to all consumers and creators. This blog post is about...

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What to Store in a Data Systems Inventory

It is critical to know where your data resides. Therefore, it is necessary to inventory all of the data systems used at the organization. This post discusses what to include in an inventory. The...

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Benefits of a Data Systems Inventory

This blog post will cover the benefits of having an inventory of your data systems at your organization (such as a higher education institution). Part of the knowledgebase for data governance (also...

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