Click here to learn more about Anas Baig. The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) has gone into effect, and organizations are looking for ways to comply with this regulation as efficiently and cost-effectively possible. Several frameworks can be used to help narrow down the route you should take when trying to comply with the CCPA. […]
Research Reveals Shortcomings in Data Literacy Projects: Don’t Let This Happen to You
Click to learn more about author Kartik Patel. Data Literacy is a hot topic in business today. As businesses struggle to remain competitive and to do more with less, every enterprise is looking for a way to optimize resources to get the most out of every team member. To do that, the business management team must […]
Getting Advanced with Data Analytics: Three Questions to Find the Right Solution
Click here to learn more about Zdenek Svoboda. Market research from Gartner maintains that, in the digital era, analytics needs to be infused into every role, business process, decision, and action. That’s a very worthy goal, but one that many companies have yet to achieve. In fact, when Deloitte recently surveyed 1,000 executives at large companies, a full 67 percent […]
The Dangers of Data Illiteracy: Coronavirus and Data Distortions
Click to learn more about co-author John Ladley. Click to learn more about co-author Len Silverston. People are unconsciously incompetent at communicating with data. This applies to our personal and professional lives. This ignorance creates an ethical issue that is profoundly important to all business and societal communities. This inability to understand and communicate with […]
Data Management Hasn’t Failed, but Data Management Storytelling Has
Click to learn more about author Scott Taylor. Let’s not kill the messengers; let’s fix the messaging! In their recently published declaration, Data Management Has Failed!, John Ladley, Tom Redman, and a host of other long-time DAMA leaders drafted a call-to-action recommending the “bold, powerful moves” needed to secure business leader support for Data Management. […]
Data Quality is Not a Goal — It’s a Mindset!
Click to learn more about author Farah Kim. Although companies are insight-starved and are investing huge amounts of money in setting up data collection and storage infrastructure (tales of data lakes!), they are unable to formulate a Data Quality plan. In my experience working with enterprise-level clients, the reason behind this is simple — Data […]
Data Management has Failed! And Presented Us a Historic Opportunity
Click to learn more about co-author John Ladley. Click to learn more about co-author Thomas Redman. In addition to Tom and John, the following folks also contributed and co-authored this piece. We all feel it is time for Data Management to move “off of the beach.” Theresa Kushner is a Consultant for AI/Analytics at […]
Five Things to Know About Data Governance
Click here to learn more about Michael Distler. Data Governance is more than just keeping your company in line with regulations. It’s crucial to transforming any company into a data-driven culture. Data professionals across every part of the ecosystem — including developers and data scientists — have a role to play in the intersection of […]
Are You Data-driven? It Will Take More Than a Piece of Software to Achieve Success
Click to learn more about author Erin Haselkorn. Organizations want and need to be data-driven. We have been talking about achieving this level of insight for years, but the majority of companies have made surprisingly little progress. Most organizations still rely on gut intuitions for decision-making and have a long way to go to leveraging […]
Fighting for the Poetry in the Data Space
Click to learn more about video blogger Scott Taylor. The Data Rants video blog series begins with host Scott Taylor “The Data Whisperer.” The series covers some of the most prominent questions in Data Management such as Master Data, the difference between Master Data and MDM, “truth” versus “meaning” in data, Data Quality, and so […]