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...
by Jean-Christophe Gaillard | Aug 28, 2019 | CIO WaterCooler Consultants, Collaboration, Feature, Information Security, Role of the CIO
A symptom of the unhealthy relationship between cyber security and large firms As we reach one of the high points of each year’s conference season, one has to reflect once more on the staggering number of products and vendors active across the cybersecurity space....
by Nicola Askham | Aug 22, 2019 | Chief Data Officer, CIO WaterCooler Consultants, Collaboration, Data Management, Feature
My last article about how you identify your data owners stimulated a lot of interest, but also a lot of questions. One question in particular, I have been asked many times over the years (in fact, I got an email asking the very same question while I was actually...
by Nicola Askham | Aug 5, 2019 | Chief Data Officer, CIO WaterCooler Consultants, Collaboration, Data Management, Feature, Latest Update
One of the items on my free Data Governance Checklist is “Define roles and assign responsibilities”. Now that is a generic statement that covers a number of different roles, but the role which I always start with (and believe that you should too) is that of Data...
by Nicola Askham | Jul 23, 2019 | Chief Data Officer, CIO WaterCooler Consultants, Collaboration, Data Management, Feature
This year I’ve tried to stick to a regular schedule of creating and posting articles. However, as many of you will have noticed, I failed abysmally a few weeks ago. A number of family illnesses and emergencies meant that I was unable to work as many hours as...
by Jean-Christophe Gaillard | Jul 14, 2019 | Collaboration, Digital Transformation, Feature, Information Security, Latest Update
In anything but name, data is today’s most used currency. In the current business paradigm, structured by big tech firms over a decade ago and replicated since by a number of online platforms, individuals willingly provide their personal information in exchange for a...