The CIA has some interesting things to say about data governance in their “Simple Sabotage Field Manual.” So much so that I think this historic document from the era of the Office of Strategic ...

I would not give a fig for the simplicity this side of complexity, but I would give my life for the simplicity on the other side of complexity.” — Olliver Wendell Holmes We seem to appreciate simple ...

Data quality issues continue to plague financial services organizations, resulting in costly fines, operational inefficiencies, and damage to reputations. Even… ...

We are living in the age of a data revolution, and more corporations are realizing that to lead—or in some cases, to survive—they need to harness their data wealth effectively. The data warehouse, due ...

The role of data products has become pivotal, driving organizations towards insightful decision-making and competitive advantage. However, ensuring the achievement of these data products demands the ...

It would be hard to imagine a data model that didn’t include persons, either as individuals or as groups. Models contain people in one of two ways: as organizational structures or as playing roles in ...

In my first article, I laid out the basic premise for this series: an examination of how Agile has gone from the darling of the application development community to a virtual pariah that nobody wants ...

Entity relationship diagram (ERD) is one of the most widely used technique for data modeling. An ERD developed during the conceptual data modeling phase of the database development process is ...

Recently, I was giving a presentation and someone asked me which segment of “the DAMA wheel” did I think semantics most affected. I said I thought it affected all of them pretty profoundly, but ...

The term “data culture” is frequently used to describe a normative view about how an organization functions (or more precisely, should function) with respect to its data. The term is not particularly ...

I was recently asked to present “Enterprise Ontology Design and Implementation Best Practices” to a group of motivated ontologists and wanna-be ontologists. I was flattered to be asked, but I really ...

Data governance has long been the backbone of responsible data management, ensuring that organizations maintain high standards in data quality, security, and compliance. According to Jonathan ...