by Charles Roe In an effort to leverage the knowledge of several of the top minds in the Data Management industry, DATAVERSITY™ has been conducting a series of interviews on some of the most relevant topics in the field today. Recently, we interviewed John Ladley, the President of IMCue Solutions. John will be giving a […]
New Book: Data Governance by John Ladley
by Angela Guess Elsevier has announced the upcoming publication of John Ladley’s new book, Data Governance: How to design, deploy and sustain an effective data governance program. The book is set to be released in July, 2012. According to the description, “This book is for any manager or team leader that has the green light […]
John Ladley
John Ladley John Ladley is a highly experienced advisor and advocate for organizations looking for sustainable value from information and data. His experience and knowledge is balanced between treating data as an essential component of modern business and economies, and the practical solution of business problems. John’s books are the authoritative sources for Data and […]
Data Strategy Trends in 2022
What is Data Strategy? “Well, the short answer is, it’s the data chapter of your business strategy,” said John Ladley, consultant and author of the book Data Governance: How to Design, Deploy and Sustain an Effective Data Governance Program. Contrary to popular belief, the one thing it isn’t, he said, is a technology procurement plan. […]
Press Release: Agenda Announced for Enterprise Data Governance Online 2022
November 30, 2021 – DATAVERSITY announced the agenda and opened registration today for the seventh annual Enterprise Data Governance Online (EDGO). This free online event will take place at datagovernanceonline.com on January 26, 2022, from 8 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Pacific Time. EDGO is designed to teach anyone working with data how to plan, implement, manage, […]
Data Warehouse vs. Data Lake Technology: Different Approaches to Managing Data
Solving business problems using big data depends upon the approach taken. For example, if an organization only knows data warehouses, then challenges will be framed to fit using a data warehouse. As Abraham Maslow, a prominent psychologist eloquently said “I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat […]
Taking the Right Steps to Implement Data Governance and Data Stewardship
Data as an asset comes up a lot in conversations these days. Data Governance enters the picture because of the huge role Data Strategy plays in supporting the business strategy – and the need for that to happen without compromising data security, according to Mary Levins, Data Governance Principal at Sierra Creek Consulting. Among the […]
Press Release: Agenda Announced and Registration Open for the 2021 Data Architecture Online Event
May 18, 2021 — DATAVERSITY Education LLC announced the agenda and opened registration today for the third annual Data Architecture Online (DAO). This free online event will be held at dataarchitectureonline.com on July 14, 2021, from 8 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Pacific Time. One of several online events hosted by DATAVERSITY, DAO is designed to teach data […]
Tales of A Common Vocabulary, Data Quality, and Machine Learning, Oh My!
Order in the court! Order in the court! The case being heard is a serious one. The defendant—the Chief Data Architect of VeraVisionFake Inc.—is accused of having ignored the need to establish a valid and sound common data vocabulary in her organization. She is up against The Common Vocabulary Value regulatory agency, whose mission is […]
Increasing the Business Impact of Data Management Using Force-Field Analysis
Click to learn more about co-author Thomas Redman. Click to learn more about co-author John Ladley. This article introduces Force-Field Analysis (FFA) [1], a tool that one of us (Tom) has used for many years to help understand and summarize the impacts of multiple factors in the data space. The goal is to equip readers […]