Digital co-workers are no longer hypothetical. AI-driven agents (“Agentics”) are creeping into every function, every decision ...

My name is Bill Burkett, and I am a data modeler.  I don’t call myself that often and sometimes have misgivings about doing ...

When I read about new technologies, I often think of the movie “Field of Dreams.” The protagonist builds a baseball field in ...

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If you haven’t already heard, a number of organizations have laid off their CDOs and CDO groups and data teams because of a ...

When a business decides to undertake a data democratization initiative, improve data literacy, and create a role for citizen data… ...

The EDM Council’s Data Excellence Program has reached a significant milestone: its first anniversary. The program is proving ...

Organizations often assume they have data governance under control, but in reality, many are simply reacting to data chaos ...

Data often arrives from multiple sources in inconsistent forms, including duplicate entries from CRM systems, incomplete ...

The Death of the Data Silo Is Not the End of the Problem For years, we’ve heard that breaking down data silos is the holy grail of business transformation. We’ve been told that better pipelines, ...

This column will expand on a Systems Thinking approach to Data Governance and focus on process control. The vendors of myriad governance tools focus on metadata, dictionaries, and quality metrics.