The CIA has some interesting things to say about data governance in their “Simple Sabotage Field Manual.” So much so that I think this historic document from the era of the Office of Strategic ...

I would not give a fig for the simplicity this side of complexity, but I would give my life for the simplicity on the other side of complexity.” — Olliver Wendell Holmes We seem to appreciate simple ...

In the realm of big data, ensuring the reliability and accuracy of data is crucial for making well-informed decisions and actionable insights. Data cleansing, the process of detecting and correcting ...

In 2026, data governance has stopped tiptoeing around the edges of organizational strategy and stepped directly into the spotlight, whether organizations are… ...

Data steward forums are catalysts for organizational data wisdom and cultural transformation. When executed thoughtfully, they become your strongest asset in building a data-driven organization.

In my discussions with CIOs over the last several years, they have repeatedly told me that they strongly dislike traditional… ...

We are living in the age of a data revolution, and more corporations are realizing that to lead—or in some cases, to survive—they need to harness their data wealth effectively. The data warehouse, due ...

The term “data culture” is frequently used to describe a normative view about how an organization functions (or more precisely, should function) with respect to its data. The term is not particularly ...

It would be hard to imagine a data model that didn’t include persons, either as individuals or as groups. Models contain people in one of two ways: as organizational structures or as playing roles in ...

Entity relationship diagram (ERD) is one of the most widely used technique for data modeling. An ERD developed during the conceptual data modeling phase of the database development process is ...

In my first article, I laid out the basic premise for this series: an examination of how Agile has gone from the darling of the application development community to a virtual pariah that nobody wants ...

I was recently asked to present “Enterprise Ontology Design and Implementation Best Practices” to a group of motivated ontologists and wanna-be ontologists. I was flattered to be asked, but I really ...