Make an Impact: Data Monetization Problems
“We just can’t find data to analyze!” “If only we had more data to work with!” “We’ve solved all of our data challenges, let’s buy some more data!” These are but a few examples of sentences people have...
View ArticleMake an Impact: Data Governance and the Lost Art of Enterprise Architecture
It seems like we’re so busy running that we no longer have time to think. We want to be faster and more responsive, but we aren’t even sure what we are trying to achieve. It’s like the person at your...
View ArticleMake an Impact: Find the Angry People
I love angry people. Whenever I’m invited to a new organization to help with data challenges, I look for them. This may sound strange but bear with me. Here is the reason why angry people are great:...
View ArticleMake an Impact: Data Governance’s Missing Piece
It’s no secret that Data Governance is difficult to get right. Many organizations are on their third or fourth go-round by now. The pattern usually goes something like this: 1) Executive sponsor gets...
View ArticleExcerpt from Data Leadership – Stop Talking About Data
Data Leadership hasn’t really been addressed before in the way I am talking about it in my new book; it is not about data at all — it is all about changing people’s behavior. We know a few truths about...
View ArticleMake An Impact: Create More Value with Data Curation
Wherever we go, we are overwhelmed by MORE: more sales, more discounts, more fun, more excitement, more features – the list goes on and on! What humans seem to be far less attuned to is reducing what...
View ArticleMake An Impact: Hidden Reasons Why Your Data Analysis Has No Value
In most of our organizations we have people doing data analysis all over the place. From very technical SQL queries and cubes to the more mundane spreadsheet-based number crunching, we have no shortage...
View ArticleMake An Impact: The Time is Now to Become a Data Leader
This is a quarterly column, and since the last one, the world has fundamentally changed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. As much as we would like, we cannot change this truth. As we find our way forward...
View ArticleMake An Impact: The Data Catalog is a 1980’s Solution for 2020’s Problems
Remember the Sears catalog? Hundreds of pages of clothes quickly flipped past to get to the toys! Who didn’t spend countless hours trying to find the perfect suggested gift for your next birthday or...
View ArticleMake An Impact: Why “I Didn’t Have Time” is Always a Lie
I got yelled at this month. Well, sternly-worded texts, anyway – it’s the 2020 version of being yelled at. As the pandemic raged on, and my day job got ever busier, my focus was on other areas and I...
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