The Data Governance Imperative
Jim Harris in Blogs, Books, Data Quality, OCDQ Radio, Podcasts tagged Business-IT Collaboration, Change Management, Communication, Data Governance, Steve Sarsfield Tuesday, April 3, 2012 at 3:00AM OCDQ Radio is a vendor-neutral podcast about data quality and its related disciplines, produced and hosted by Jim Harris.
During this episode, Steve Sarsfield and I discuss how data governance is about changing the hearts and minds of your company to see the value of data quality, the characteristics of a data champion, and creating effective data quality scorecards.
Steve Sarsfield is a leading author and expert in data quality and data governance. His book The Data Governance Imperative is a comprehensive exploration of data governance focusing on the business perspectives that are important to data champions, front-office employees, and executives. He runs the Data Governance and Data Quality Insider, which is an award-winning and world-recognized blog. Steve Sarsfield is the Product Marketing Manager for Data Governance and Data Quality at Talend.
The Data Governance Imperative
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(1) Book Contest Question — Name at least one of the characteristics of a data champion that Steve Sarsfield described during this OCDQ Radio episode.
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(3) Book Contest Winner — In May 2012, one winner will be randomly selected from the emails containing the correct answer to the contest question, and Steve Sarsfield (or his publisher) will email the winner requesting a shipping address for the book.
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- Making EIM Work for Business — Guest John Ladley discusses his book Making EIM Work for Business, exploring what makes information management, not just useful, but valuable to the enterprise.
- The Johari Window of Data Quality — Guest Martin Doyle discusses helping people better understand their data and assess its business impacts, not just the negative impacts of bad data quality, but also the positive impacts of good data quality.
- The Blue Box of Information Quality — Guest Daragh O Brien on why Information Quality is bigger on the inside, using stories as an analytical tool and change management technique, and why we must never forget that “people are cool.”
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