Nicola initially worked for a leading UK Bank, and moved into consultancy in 2009. Nicola has worked with clients in a number of different industries including Financial Services, Manufacturing, Defence, Utilities and Retail.
Nicola is a Director and Committee Member of DAMA UK, sits on the Expert Panel of Dataqualitypro.com, and regularly writes and presents internationally on data governance best practice.
If you are a regular follower of my videos and blogs, you will know that one of my key aims is to help explain the vast – and sometimes confusing – amount of terminology that is found within Data Governance. Often things have different meanings depending on the organisation you work within or can even […]
Read more...Data scientists are storytellers. They gather data from a variety of sources, clean and combine that data, and use their programming, math, statistical and analytical skills to interpret that data. Data scientists can help businesses understand customers and market trends, forecast sales, improve processes, and help to make better, smarter, faster decisions. But the data […]
Read more...If you’ve ever read any of my previous blogs on data ownership, you’ll probably know that I feel quite categorically, from my many years of experience, that you really cannot have more than one Data Owner per data set. It really doesn’t work, and I don’t recommend you try it. There’s no exception to this […]
Read more...My name is Miles Reah and I have worked as a data governance consultant predominately in investment banking but more recently in insurance and healthcare. I am currently working as a Data and AI Consulting Manager for Avanade helping our clients discover the value of effective data governance and data management can bring to their […]
Read more...Getting a data glossary in place can take a lot of hard work and effort, so it can be particularly frustrating if/when your business users don’t truly appreciate the value it brings and either don’t want to help you build it or don’t use it when it has been built. Why are you creating a […]
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