by Nicola Askham | Jun 5, 2020 | Chief Data Officer, Data Management, Feature, Knowledge Bank
A while ago I wrote a blog about things you should consider when choosing the right software to help facilitate your Data Governance initiative, but once you have selected and purchased the tool do not assume that everything will now “just happen”. One of my clients...
by Nicola Askham | May 29, 2020 | Chief Data Officer, Data Management, Data Science Teams, Feature, Knowledge Bank
Earlier this year, in the days before social distancing, I was lucky enough to catch up Neil over breakfast and he kindly agreed to be interviewed for my blog. Neil is an independent data evangelist who has worked in large multinational companies from the early years...
by Nicola Askham | Mar 11, 2020 | Chief Data Officer, Data Management, Knowledge Bank
There are many tools on the market now that can help you with your data governance initiative. In particular, there are numerous products that hold and manage your data glossary, data catalog and data dictionaries. These have proved very popular and the number of...
by Nicola Askham | Jan 10, 2020 | Chief Data Officer, Data Management, Feature, Knowledge Bank
In this article, I want to answer a question that I am asked several times every week. To be honest, it’s not an unreasonable question, but it’s not an easy one to answer! Before I go into any detail trying to answer the question, I want to make one thing very...
by Nicola Askham | Nov 25, 2019 | Chief Data Officer, Data Management, Feature, Knowledge Bank
In this blog, I want to look at how a poor data culture can impact on staff in your organization. Most of the articles I write focus on what you need to do to implement data governance, but I had such a great response to my post on why the data governance business...
by Nicola Askham | Oct 30, 2019 | Chief Data Officer, Collaboration, Feature
In a recent blog, I looked at why you should prioritise your data and identify the data that is the most critical or material to your organisation, so you can focus your data governance efforts on that data. In response to that blog, I had a number of people...