Data Fabric Or Data Fabrication?
Earlier in my career, as a data analyst, the biggest area of frustration for my marketing clients was the lag time between their requests and...
The Data Science ROI Of Moving To The Data Lakehouse
Many CDOs/CDAOs (and even CMOs) have raised some interesting questions about these three data management and data science titans: Snowflake, Databricks, and DataRobot. Some of...
How Analytics Planning Drives The Data Mesh
In this article, we are going to review the elements of a good analytics planning framework and how analytics planning is part of data product...
Where Is Data Analytics For Banking In The Metaverse Heading?
Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley estimate that the metaverse economy could be worth as much as $8 trillion. This appeared in a recent article on...
Data Never Sleeps. How Actionable Is Your Reporting?
The business seems to be doing better, but you have reporting to show how well it’s actually doing? You want to collect data and turn...
How To Make The Shift From Data Literacy To Data Analytics Literacy
One of the pillars of an exemplary data management and governance program is data literacy. Organizations often assume that their executives or data users are...
Chief Data Analytics Officer (CDAO): From Mindsets To Skill Sets
In this article, I will outline the primary responsibilities of the CDAO role and, in this and subsequent posts, will further differentiate CDAOs from CIOs...
Top 5 Questions To Answer To Get Your Data Strategy Just Right
We live in an age where data is leveraged more than ever to make decisions. Yet many firms have an incomplete data strategy that prevents...
How To Hire The Best Data Analytics Leaders (And It’s Not The Way You Think!)
“Data analytics is to management decision-making what metaphysics is to spirituality. They both provide laws of thinking, procedures, methods, and treatments to shine a light...
Great Resignation, Great Downsizing? You Need A Talent Architecture To Improve Retention!
As you can imagine, there are many leadership areas in which CDAOs focus on collaboration with HR, recruiting, and technology. In their role as the...
Organizing Data Governance For Business Impact
So, following up on my previous articles, let us discuss how to organize data governance (DG) for business impact. Yes, emphasis on business impact. Powered...
Why You Need A Data Strategy Before Data Governance (Part 3a)
Part Three A: Standing up the Data Management and Governance Teams: Why CDOs Don’t Have More Impact
As we previously discussed, the final step in our...
