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May 15 2024
The Art of Lean Governance: What We Can Learn from HAZMAT Professionals
The collapse of the Francis Scott Key bridge on March 26, 2024, was a tragic loss of life and disruption to the shipping supply chain on a global scale that will take months, if not years, to fully recover. A major shipping artery in and out of the United States was severed, stranding ships on […]


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Author: Steve Zagoudis

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Feb 21 2024
The Art of Lean Governance: Addressing the Elephant in the Room
Hands down one of the most frequent observations when walking the data factory at different clients is the excessive use of spreadsheets for data collection and purification. These spreadsheets are part of a critical data enrichment process for getting reports out the door on time. However, these same spreadsheets represent a significant control problem exposing […]


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Nov 1 2023
The Art of Lean Governance: Walking the Data Factory
The concept of “walking the data factory” drew a great deal of interest during our recent DGPO webinar on data classification as part of a holistic governance program. We discussed ways to connect the stove-piped worlds of data governance and information governance under a common governance classification. There is great power in lean governance when […]


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Author: Steve Zagoudis

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Aug 2 2023
The Art of Lean Governance: Need for an Integrated Governance Framework
At a recent Data Governance conference, we had the opportunity to review several leading governance technology solutions. In their own right, these solutions were impressive, offering a wide spectrum of business and technology capabilities. As practitioner of Lean Governance. we are forever on the hunt for solutions that drive total data awareness across the enterprise.  […]


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Author: Steve Zagoudis

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May 3 2023
The Art of Lean Governance: Achieving Enterprise Data Awareness
Achieving Enterprise Data Awareness is a natural maturity progression within the governance domain. At this stage, companies rightly see Data Governance and Information Governance as a large metadata puzzle. Governance implementations can be defined as a series of business rules (metadata) using terms such as system of record, subject area, Data Owners, and Data Stewards. […]


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