In the last couple of years, I have seen a move away from companies implementing data governance because they are in an industry where their regulator requires it, to organizations starting data governance purely because of the benefits they can achieve. …

If we have data lakes, do we really need data governance? — There continues to be a lot of excitement about data lakes and the possibilities that they offer, particularly about with analytics, data visualizations, AI and machine learning. As such, I’m increasingly being asked whether you really need Data Governance over a data lake. After all, a data lake is a…

What’s the reason behind all these data governance definitions? Don’t you think it’s strange that a data management discipline that, amongst other activities actively promotes defining data, has so many definitions of what the discipline itself is? I think it’s bewildering and to be honest very frustrating. …

What you’ll need for your data governance initiative — At some point in your Data Governance initiative, you are going to need to think about setting up a Data Governance Committee. So in this blog, I wanted to look at what a Data Governance Committee is and what it should do. Before I start to look at this in…

In my final blog post of the year, I have been extremely lucky to do a Data Governance interview with a very special person. Known as Father Christmas to my English readers and Santa Claus to my international audience, this person is the personification of Christmas. Although he may not…

One of the items on my free Data Governance Checklist is “Define roles and assign responsibilities”. Now that is a generic statement that covers a number of different roles, but the role which I always start with (and believe that you should too) is that of Data Owner. By that…

In my experience so many people seriously underestimate the speed at which they’re able to implement data governance — so, when a client asked me how often he should revisit his Data Governance Maturity Assessment I thought ‘that is such a good question, I’m going to write a blog about…

In my experience so many people seriously underestimate the speed at which they’re able to implement data governance — so, when a client asked me how often he should revisit his Data Governance Maturity Assessment I thought ‘that is such a good question, I’m going to write a blog about…

Someone recently asked me what questions I’d recommend asking in interviews for candidates applying for a Data Governance Manager role. It’s been a couple of years since I helped a client with the recruitment process. I remembered a couple of questions that worked well but thought that since the data…