A conversation between 2 Chief Data Officers

Two Chief Data Officers meet during a cocktail party. They start to talk.

The 3P’s of data management

Referrals to “the 3 P’s” are common in management literature. A quick search on the internet gives quite a number of explanations for the abbreviation “3P”:

• Product, Price, Place
• Third Party (procurement, architecture…

How our challenge as a data consultant led to the joy of a new solution

Making data easily accessible and fully understood

The importance of broad discovery in metadata governance

Starting a data initiative — the bazaar approach

Data doesn’t work for you the way it could?

When discussing data-driven projects, many symptoms are referred to as ‘due to poor data quality’. That one description can hide many different causes and is a classical case of not being able to see the forest for the trees. Here are some of these…

IT shouldn’t limit corporate agility

This summer’s Harvard Business Review focused on companies’ ability to adapt. Agility is high on every successful company’s agenda. Key to this success is the ability to execute. An unlikely bottleneck is appearing in the one department that should be bringing…

Data is the new oil — start digging!

Imagine your backyard were located right above an oil field. And you knew about it. Somehow though, you never got to installing a drilling rig. Can’t complain about missing the pot at the end of the rainbow then, can you?

Are you gatekeeping your metadata contributors?