Click to learn more about author Sandra Lupanava. It has never been easy to set up robust Knowledge Management in an enterprise. Organizational silos, communication barriers, and knowledge complexity often stall the development of Knowledge Management practices. In this context, organizations consider productive employee collaboration essential to successful Knowledge Management. Indeed, a collaboration-driven corporate culture […]
How a Knowledge Management Solution Can Help a Weak Knowledge Sharing Culture
Click to learn more about author Sandra Lupanava. Knowledge Management advocates have been discussing and promoting the concept of knowledge sharing culture since the late 90s. However, even 20 years later companies still struggle to adopt knowledge sharing initiatives. In their report on the state of Knowledge Management , TSIA proved that organizations would like […]
Four Phases to an Agile Data Governance Implementation
Bringing Data Governance to an Agile environment requires a focus on thin-slice, small step implementation, said Sarah Rasmussen, Senior Manager, Data Management, at CUNA Mutual, speaking at DATAVERSITY© Enterprise Data World 2017 Conference during her presentation titled “Delivering a Data Governance Program the Agile Way.” “It’s about being incremental, and the key is to communicate […]
The CDO Office: When to Do It and How
Two questions align when it comes to the Chief Data Officer (CDO): How do you know your business is ready to have one? And if it is, how do you quickly get a CDO shop in shape? Thomas Redman, The Data Doc who helps companies improve Data Quality, took up the first question during the […]
Facilitating Collaborative Data Governance, Enterprise Data Architecture, and Data Modeling
“On its own, Big Data means nothing. It’s got to exist, coexist, and work with the other data,” said Ron Huizenga, Senior Product Manager at IDERA Software. “The good news in the industry is [that] we’re past Big Data being the shiny ball that people are chasing,” and now we’re trying to assess what Big […]
Strategic Data Stewardship: Operationalizing Data Governance
According to Fawad Butt, many companies spend a lot of time and energy building a Data Governance and Data Stewardship Program by putting, policies, procedure, and tools into place, yet, “At the end of the day, the real operationalization work of Data Governance tends to happen through Data Stewards.” To do that well, stewards need […]
Harnessing the Power of Your Collective in Data Governance and Data Science
Click to learn more about Kimberly Nevala. Emerging data solutions and trends have a common thread: the power of the collective in which the final product is bigger than the sum of its parts. Companies leading the data and analytics charge have recognized that the power of a collective applies to more than technology. They […]