By Edmund Metera, Process Modeling Advisor The Beautiful Game Whether you call it football or soccer, “the Beautiful Game” as it is widely known, has simple rules of play. But …
Business Change and Transformation Conference Europe 2023 will be co-located with the brand new Digital Workshop.
IRM UK are excited to announce that the Business Change & Transformation Conference Europe will be co-located with the brand-new Digital Workplace Conference and is taking place in London from …
Five signs your Data Governance initiative is failing
By Nicola Askham, The Data Governance Coach. One: There are different understandings of the terminology within the same organisation Most organisations are full of lots of jargon and terminology which …
The Small World of Data Quality
By Danette McGilvray, Granite Falls Consulting, Inc Most of us are familiar with the phrase “It’s a Small World” made famous by the Disney song of the same name. We …
Specification by Example
By Line Karkov, Senior Business Analyst at DM – fagforening The first time I attempted using specification by example, I failed. A couple of years ago, I was the product …
Changing the Role of the ARB
By Nick Malik, Digital Transformation Strategist, Chief Architect, former CIO, Servant Leader, Infosys My colleague Gideon Slifkin posted recently on LinkedIn, listing many of the responsibilities that he attributes to …
Dashboarding is much like knitting
An immensely useful invention. By Michiel Heyns van Staden, Data Strategy, Solutions and Analytics Lead, Absa Group Being able to visualise often complex information in a succinct way, with the …
What is a Data Domain?
By Nicola Askham, The Data Governance Coach, Nicola Askham Ltd This is a very short and succinct question, and I thought the answer was likely to be the same. However, …
‘How to hack your transformation!”
By Lisa Bondesio, Founder of Chiridion Have you noticed that the world is spinning a little faster? Are you prepared for change? Is your organisation transformation ready? In today’s business …
What the Data and Tech Industries Are Doing to Support Ukraine
By Nicola Askman, DataIQ 100 2022 | Award Winning Data Governance Training | Consultant | Coaching | Data Governance Expert | D.A.T.A Founding Committee Like people and industries across the …
Where will our insights come from?
By MH van Staden MIT Big Data Science in progress Data Strategy, Solutions & Analytics Lead, Everyday Banking Insights do not come from data. Often business stakeholders will cast their …
Data management framework: what, why, and how?
Article by Irina Steenbeek, Managing Director, Data Crossroads. We, data management professionals, often use the term “data management framework.” But do we all have the same understanding of its meaning …
Data lineage: the needs of and benefits to various stakeholders
Article by Irina Steenbeek, Managing Director, Data Crossroads. Data lineage is on the radars of business and data management professionals now more than ever. Many companies understand how necessary it …
How to Build a Successful Business Architecture Practice
By Whynde Kuehn, S2E and Biz Arch Mastery Founder | Strategy to Reality Author | Passionate Advocate for Strategy Execution + Business Architecture As a global discipline, business architecture is …
The Rocky Horror Data Show: Disastrous data definitions…
By Nicola Askham, The Data Governance Coach Data shouldn’t be a wild and untamed thing, but sometimes it is just that – wild… and untamed. And unfortunately for our friend …
What to do with data
Everybody is doing it. Having individuals with data specific roles, or even entire teams focusing on data functions, has become commonplace in many organisations. It is now common practice to …
Towards more responsive transformation risk management
Written by Michael D. Barwise BSc, CEng, CITP, MBCS, MCIIS, LCCP, FRSABusiness Information Risk Management Consulting Probably the greatest single challenge for any transformation programme is risk management. Every phase …
An Introduction to Business Process Normalization
By Ed Metera, Program Manager, Instructor, Book Author and Founder of ProcessModelingAdvisor.com Business Process Normalization[1] is an analysis technique that leads to sound, modern business process and workflow structures. Business …
Business Architecture: Collecting, Connecting, and Correcting the Dots: The book by Roger Burlton
Published by Technics Publications Book Description‘Business Architecture: Collecting, Connecting and Correcting the Dots ’is the latest book for Roger Burlton. It deals with ways to design a business so that …
Data and Information – Assets to Be Managed
Following is an excerpt from Executing Data Quality Projects: Ten Steps to Quality Data and Trusted Information™, 2nd Ed. (Elsevier/Academic Press, 2021) by Danette McGilvray. What can we do to …
Even AI needs interpersonal skills
By MH van Staden, Data Analytics Leader of the Year 2020, Speaker, Writer, Mentor and Coach What is this AI everybody is talking about? Well that probably depends on who …
Deduplicating Data for Quality Information
By Dr. Barry Devlin Register for Essentials of Data Warehouses, Lakes and BI in Digital Business – Live Streaming only, 15-16 March 2022 What is your biggest information problem? If …
Data Fluency: Empowering Your Data-Driven Organization
Article written by Ben Herzberg, Chief Scientist of Satori We live in a data-driven world. From the first moment we learn to speak, we are inundated with data: numbers, measurements, …
You Can’t Buy a Data Fabric!
By Rick F. van der Lans, Founder of R20/Consultancy BV, Ambassador of Axians Business Analytics Laren You can buy an ETL tool, a reporting tool, and a database server, but …