What do AI Governance and Data Governance have in common?

It’s everyone’s favorite time of year! I’m not talking about Pumpkin Latte (gross) season or Halloween (awesome); I’m talking about the...

Time to re-invent what data ownership means to your organization.

Where to begin? In early 2020 I was asked by a local Minneapolis based software company if I could give a keynote address at their annual...

The Four Pillars of Data Governance Well, another year has gone by, and we still struggle to build data governance programs. Recently...

Serena Roberts defines and demystifies data culture enablement.

“I’ve tried this before, Laura,” she said in an exacerbated tone. “I’ve followed the best practices, focused on the WIIFM, communicated...

Let me be clear, there is no “data-driven culture” if you don’t imbue a sense of responsibility for the data across the organization.

Operating your data program without a strategy is a bit like my morning cup of coffee. It just allows me to do dumb stuff faster.

Data governance literacy is the ability to define data, the parameters of data quality, understand the provenance of the data, and champion

Enabling a data culture is about making small, incremental changes, and being consistent and persistent about it, over immediate gains.

Separating out the “church and state” of data governance will help organizations focus on better and faster access to data.

There is no data governance without people. Managing the effort regardless to your theory on what and how it should be done, requires staff

Laura and I have been quietly working on something big, something we’ve been wanting to shout from the rooftops for a while.