Several years ago, I spent a wonderful week in São Paulo to help a customer answer a simple question: three data warehouses, or one? Here’s the background. For many years, the Latin America region of a very big consumer packaged goods company operated as a loose collection of about 30 independent companies spread in 20 countries. [...]
About a month ago, we announced the Kalido Data Governance Maturity Model. Right after that, we got an email from a concerned analyst. He asked, “Why do we need another data governance maturity model? And are you getting into the consulting business and competing with us?” No, we’re absolutely not getting into the consulting business. [...]
Recently, I wrote about getting caught in such data governance traps as pursuing quality for the sake of quality and imposing change on an organization without considering the cultural impact. In this post, I’ll explore the issue of corporate culture and what it takes to overcome barriers to change. By nature, governance institutes change. Mandating [...]
One of my kids’ favorite books is the Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig, which upends the classic tale of the three little pigs and the big bad wolf. There’re good lessons in it relevant to data management. Everywhere we hear the talk of Big Data, both about handling the explosive growth of [...]
Information Difference just published a new study based on a survey exploring the links between data governance, master data management (MDM) and data quality. While it’s full of insights, I’m particularly struck by how urgently companies are expressing the need for data governance technology. Demand for products come from expressed need or latent need. When [...]
