You receive a data-related request. Maybe there is a request for a new report. Maybe it is a question on an existing report. Maybe there is a data quality issue – real or perceived. Maybe it is a...
June 19, 2025
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Jim Walery
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May 21, 2025
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Jim Walery
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Is the effort to implement data governance and data intelligence worth it? The answer to this question is yes. With the implementation of data governance and data intelligence, the organization will...
April 09, 2025
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Jim Walery
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Keep in mind that data governance and data intelligence is not only about technology and information but also about staff. Make it easy for the staff at your organization to follow data-related...
Here in the blog we like to discuss current topics, often inspired by experiences we have working with clients, or meeting with prospective clients, or even sometimes in the (data) news. At least...
December 26, 2024
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Jim Walery
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And the envelope please! We did our review and here are the top 10 most viewed blog posts in 2024 from our IData Insights Blog about Data Management, Data Intelligence, and Data Governance. They are...
November 13, 2024
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Jim Walery
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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...
September 16, 2024
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Jim Walery
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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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
December 14, 2022
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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: ...
We tend to focus our data governance marketing, training, and services efforts on a few key roles: subject matter experts, business analysts and certain technical resources, and of course data...
August 18, 2022
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Jim Walery
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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...
July 27, 2022
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Jim Walery
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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...
July 20, 2022
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Jim Walery
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entry
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...
June 29, 2022
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Jim Walery
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Knowledge,
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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...
June 15, 2022
By
Aaron Walker
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description,
potential,
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Here at IData, we take an expansive view of data stewards, and we group a wide variety of tasks and responsibilities under the rubric of data stewardship. Without conscientious data stewardship,...
January 26, 2022
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Jim Walery
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For data governance and data intelligence success, an organization must have a data governance oversight and management team or committee (team) in place. This team is the champion for data...
December 15, 2021
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Jim Walery
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change
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 it is complex to implement...
February 17, 2021
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Jim Walery
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people,
knowledgebase,
intelligence,
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...
April 08, 2020
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Jim Walery
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Data Cookbook,
intelligence,
framework
One of the three components of a data governance (data intelligence) framework is data stewardship which is defining and establishing stewardship. Stewardship involves people and these individuals...