1 day agoOpen Data Product Specification applied in Finland in social sector data product experimentationA marvelous webinar ” How to design and build a valuable data product?” was held by Solita just recently. The story of data products is wrapped with real-world case experiment in a large governmental organization called KELA. Kela is a Finnish government agency in charge of settling benefits under national…Data Product Creation3 min readData Product Creation3 min read
Mar 26Fairness is not the driver of data economy — business and value creation areI know this is possibly unpopular opinion in the eyes of the Fair Data Economy believers in Europe and especially in northern parts of it (not to name a country). The fairness of data economy has been the top topic and has dominated the data economy discussion. Don’t get me…Data2 min readData2 min read
Jan 22Versatile faces of data productsDuring the couple of weeks I have been discussing with people who have approached the data products from datahub or data ecosystem point of view. We began conversation as they were more and more intrigued on how to inject data products in their model. So far I have been designing…Data Product Creation4 min readData Product Creation4 min read
Jan 14Data Governance should include Data Product GovernanceThe traditional data governance is very technical domain by nature. By definition, the governance of enterprise data encompasses the policies and procedures that are implemented to ensure an organization’s data is accurate to begin with — and then handled properly while being input, stored, manipulated, accessed, and deleted. Data Product…Data Product Creation3 min readData Product Creation3 min read
Jan 12Design guidance for data products is needed to deliver great customer experienceWhen data is refined as services or “products”, it brings benefits like re-usability, low failure risks, faster exchange, better quality and customer experience for businesses. Processes like service design can also be applied in designing data products to ensure proper business strategies, brand engagement and governance in technical architecture. Data…Data Product Creation7 min readData Product Creation7 min read
Dec 28, 2022Pareto Principle and Data Product Management (and data quality)Data quality has been discussed lately quite a lot in various journals, blog posts and conferences. And that is for a good reason. If you do not put efforts in providing high quality data, you will fall back to good old “garbage in, garbage out” syndrome. …Data Product Creation3 min readData Product Creation3 min read
Dec 24, 2022Business metadata and data modeling canvas for data products — Data Product Toolkit®When drafting a data product, both business metadata and technical data model of the to be created data product must be defined. Working on those as a team of Product Manager and Data Architects (+ other disciplings) is often advised approach. Here’s how it is done in Data Product Toolkit®. …Data Product7 min readData Product7 min read
Nov 14, 20224 connected viewpoints to data strategyWhile constructing a data strategy for one organization I began a journey in which learning happens for me as well. It’s a common approach to think of data strategy from more or less technical perspectives. That’s how I started as well. APIs as plumbing My background is in APIs and productizing APIs. Thus…Data3 min readData3 min read
Oct 30, 2022Transition from data as a resource to data as a commodity dominant logicAs a practitioner and consultant and scholar doing research in the data economy, I am constantly looking for new descriptions of the world we are and where we are going to. We need more dialog, more models, more rough frameworks around data economy to really understand it. …Data Economy3 min readData Economy3 min read
Oct 27, 2022We need Data Product Design Guides for better CX and unified portfoliosData Product Design Guide — better CX and unified portfolio. This is the thought I had probably a year ago. Now I had a moment to think about the subject again. We all know how API families are kept in shape and CX in a high level with help of…Data Product Creation2 min readData Product Creation2 min read
