What a great week for those of us working in the data wold! Barbara Deemer, Chief Data Steward at Sallie Mae, was named the winner of the First Annual…

Just read a brilliant post by Dylan Jones called “A Framework is not a Strategy.” It was in response to a comman Data Quality Pro community member…

One of the LinkedIn Groups I participate in has spent the past two months discussing the following question: “Respect for data - are we beginning to see a…

I just had dinner with a friend who works with customer data for a new line of business (LOB) for a very large and established company. My friend -…

Just read Julie Hunt’s blog on the connections between business process and data governance. Interesting.  http://preview.tinyurl.com/proc1hunt. In it, she quotes Rob Karel of Forrester from a blog entry…

Raise your hand if your programs have ever struggled with the ”official names” of organizations. Wow! Did you hear that WHOOSH around the world? Yep, it’s a universal problem, with…

One of my clients used to affectionately call me a Rock Star. Why? Because of a Bon Jovi documentary in which he talked frankly about life on…

Been following (and finally participating in) an interesting, thoughtful, thought-provoking online discussion about the similarities / differences of BA and BI. (Business Analytics and Business Intelligence.) About a…

Just finished listening to an interview with the great writer Carl Hiassen, a fellow Floridian and chronicler of crazy. (It was on Public Radio, BTW - go Public…

My friend David Plotkin, who is the Data Governance Manager of AAA of Northern California, Nevada, and Utah, reached out to me recently to restate something I’d said last summer…