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Jan 15 2025

Data Professional Introspective: Your Organization Can’t Create an EDM Strategy

Some countries successfully create long-term strategic plans. For example, China’s first 100-year plan was aimed at the elimination of extreme poverty by 2020. In 1980, there were 540M people living in extreme poverty; by 2014, there were only 80 million. The second 100-year plan, targeted for 2050, calls for achieving 30% of global GDP, to […]

All in the Data: Too Soon for Q Governance?

Quantum computing, with its groundbreaking capabilities, is poised to redefine how organizations solve complex problems and innovate in ways previously unimaginable. As industries begin to explore its potential, a pressing question emerges: Are we ready to govern this new frontier? Much like the evolution of AI necessitated AI governance, quantum computing demands its own variation […]

The Book Look: AI & The Data Revolution

I am just going to start off by saying that I am a Laura Madsen fan. Her writing style combines laugh-out-loud humor with practical experience, making her books both enjoyable and educational. Even some of the book’s subheadings, like “Let’s Not Do Dumb Stuff Faster” and “Kwality Is Job One,” made me laugh out loud. […]

Legal Issues for Data Professionals: In AI, Data Itself Is the Supply Chain

Data is the supply chain for AI. For generative AI, even in fine-tuned, company-specific large language models, the data that is input into training data comes from a host of different sources. If the data from any given source is unreliable, then the training data will be deficient and the LLM output will be untrustworthy. […]

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Author: William A. Tanenbaum and Isaac Greaney

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Dec 4 2024

Data Is Risky Business: Structured, Unstructured (Who Cares?)

The Irish satirist Jonathan Swift wrote “Gulliver’s Travels” almost 300 years ago, but the story of Lemuel Gulliver’s journey to Lilliput and beyond has resonance for data leaders today. There are important lessons to learn from the little people of Lilliput and the challenges encountered by the eponymous Gulliver. While Lilliput is where Gulliver first […]

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Author: Daragh O Brien

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Nov 20 2024

The Art of Lean Governance: A Systems Thinking Approach to Data Governance

A systems thinking approach to process control and optimization demands continual data quality feedback loops. Moving the quality checks upstream to the source system provides the most extensive control coverage. Data quality approaches not utilizing these loops will fail to achieve the desired results, often worsening the problem. Data Governance is about gaining trust and […]

Data Is Risky Business: Scaling Data Governance to the National Stage

I recently started a doctorate. And because I obviously have too much free time after running my business, teaching, and writing columns for august publications like this, I’m looking at data governance. But not at the level of the organization. My doctoral research will be a deep dive into some oft-neglected human factors that need to […]

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Author: Daragh O Brien

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Sep 4 2024

The Data-Centric Revolution: Dealing with Data Complexity

There are many perennial issues with data: data quality, data access, data provenance, and data meaning. I will contend in this article that the central issue around which these others revolve is data complexity. It’s the complexity of data that creates and perpetuates these other problems. As we’ll see, it is a tractable problem that […]

Eyes on Data: Understanding Data Products and Their Role in Data Marketplaces

In the rapidly evolving landscape of data management, the concept of data products has emerged as a cornerstone for effective data utilization and governance. Industry experts have shed light on the critical nature of data products, their distinction from data assets, and their pivotal role in data marketplaces. As organizations strive to maximize the value […]

Data Professional Introspective: The Data Management Education Program (Part 2)

In my work with the EDM Council’s Data Management Capability Assessment Model (DCAM) 3.0 development group, we are adding a capability that has remained under the radar in our industry, that is, the responsibility of the Data Management Program to determine concept and knowledge gaps within its staff resources. The organization should then plan, organize, […]

The Book Look: AI Governance

Technics Publications has started publishing a line of Data-Driven AI books, and one of the first books in this series is “AI Governance” by Dr. Darryl J Carlton. The goal of the book in one sentence is to enable the reader to gain the knowledge and tools to effectively govern and oversee the use of […]

Through the Looking Glass: Metaphors, MUNCH, and Large Language Models

“What’s a metaphor?” Mr. Biergel posed the question one morning to my high school grammar class. Being typical teenagers, we looked at him with blank-eyed stares. We expected that if we waited long enough, he’d write a paragraph-long definition on the blackboard. “What’s a metaphor?” he repeated. “A place for cows to graze!” We groaned. […]

Data Is Risky Business: The Big Picture Ethics of Small Data Actions

Regular readers of this column will have noticed a thread weaving its way through the articles over the past few months. The role of the individual in the execution of ethical data management and in addressing the risks that arise when we collect data, store data, share data, or put data to work is often […]

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Author: Daragh O Brien

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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 […]

Eyes on Data: Improving ESG Reporting with Established Industry Standards

In today’s rapidly evolving corporate landscape, environmental, social, and governance (ESG) reporting has become a focal point for organizations aiming to demonstrate their commitment to sustainability and responsible business practices and comply with a growing roster of regulations. As companies navigate the complexities of ESG reporting, they increasingly seek guidance on how to effectively manage […]

Data Speaks for Itself: Is Metadata Data?

Well, of course, metadata is data. Our standard definition explicitly says that metadata is data describing other data. So why would I even ask this question in the article title? The reason I ask it is because we seem to think about and manage metadata as somehow different than “normal data” such as business operations […]

Crossing the Data Divide: AI Data Assistants — A Data Leader’s Force Multiplier

The focus of my last column, titled Crossing the Data Divide: Data Catalogs and the Generative AI Wave, was on the impact of large language models (LLM) and generative artificial intelligence (AI) and how we disseminate knowledge throughout the enterprise and the future role of the data catalogs. Spoiler alert if you have not read […]

Data Professional Introspective: The Data Management Education Program

In my work with the EDM Council’s Data Management Capability Assessment Model (DCAM) 3.0 development group, we are adding a capability that has remained under the radar in our industry: the responsibility of the Data Management Program to determine concept and knowledge gaps within its staff resources. The organization should then plan, organize, and make […]

All in the Data: A Steward in Need Is a Steward in Deed

You’ve probably heard the expression, “A friend in need is a friend indeed.” For this column, I am going to play with that expression to make a point. Instead of a friend, I will refer to friends as data stewards. Instead of indeed (meaning certainly), I am going to insert a space in the word […]

Data Is Risky Business: The Opportunity Exists Between Keyboard and Chair

I’m doing some research work for a thing (more on that thing later in the column). My research has had me diving through all the published academic research in the field of data governance (DG) that deals with critical success factors for sustainable (as in: “not falling over and sinking into a swamp with all […]

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Author: Daragh O Brien

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Mar 20 2024

Legal Issues for Data Professionals: AI Creates Hidden Data and IP Legal Problems

As data has catapulted to a new and valuable business asset class, and as AI is increasingly used in business operations, the use of AI has created hidden data and IP risks. These risks must be identified and then measures must be taken to protect against both a loss of rights and an infringement of […]

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 […]

Crossing the Data Divide: Data Catalogs and the Generative AI Wave

The “Tide” of LLMs Has Reached Our Shores As a career data professional and having spent most of the last 10 years with Collibra, Alation, and now as an independent, I’ve come to a somewhat painful, yet exciting realization that large language models (LLM) will completely disrupt and displace data cataloging as we know it! […]

The Book Look: Data Privacy Across Borders

I never realized how complex data privacy rules can be for multinational companies until I read “Data Privacy Across Borders” by Lambert Hogenhout and Amanda Wang. This book not only goes into detail on the privacy regulations from many countries, but it also covers the importance of a global data privacy strategy and the steps […]

All in the Data: The Search for Intelligent Life in Your Organization

An invisible, yet universal, force exists that is shaping the very fabric of data-driven decision-making, data practices, and operational data management functionality. This force is “informal governance,” an astral influence orchestrating the celestial bodies of an organization. Acknowledging the existence of this informal governance marks the launch of a profound journey — a quest for […]

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