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 | 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 Nicola Askham | Jul 2, 2019 | Chief Data Officer, CIO WaterCooler Consultants, Collaboration, Data Management, Feature
In this article, I’m going to look at why you really should do data governance. When I tell people what I do, I get a mixed response. Some people seem genuinely surprised that everyone isn’t already doing Data Governance, and an awful lot of people ask why would you...
by Nicola Askham | Jun 14, 2019 | Chief Data Officer, CIO WaterCooler Consultants, Data Management, Digital Transformation, Feature
This is a question that I get asked fairly regularly. After all it is not an exciting title and in no way conveys the benefits that an organisation can achieve by implementing Data Governance. Sadly however, there is no easy yes or no answer. There are a number of...
