Information Requirements Gathering: The One Question You Must Never Ask!
Over the years, I’ve tended to find that asking any individual or group the question “What data/information do you want?” gets one of two responses: “I don’t know.” Or; “I don’t know what you mean by...
View ArticleData Quality Profiling Considerations
Data profiling is an excellent diagnostic method for gaining additional understanding of the data. Profiling the source data helps inform both business requirements definition and detailed solution...
View ArticleAre there alternatives to Data Hoarding?
“In a microsecond economy,” Becca Lipman recently blogged, “most data is only useful in the first few milliseconds, or to an extent, hours after it is created. But the way the industry is collecting...
View ArticleIs Informed Consent outdated in the Information Age?
A Facebook experiment from late 2012 made news earlier this year and raised the ethical question of whether, by using free services provided via the Internet and mobile apps, we have granted informed...
View ArticleThe rule of 150 applied to data
Anthropologist Robin Dunbar has used his research in primates over recent decades to argue that there is a cognitive limit to the number of social relationships that an individual can maintain and...
View ArticleOpen Data opens eyes to Data Quality and Data Governance
Calls for increased transparency and accountability lead government agencies around the world to make more information available to the public as open data. As more people accessed this information, it...
View ArticleTrading your way to IT simplicity
Stop reading now if your organisation is easier to navigate today than it was 3, 5 or 10 years ago. The reality that most of us face is that the general ledger that might have cost $100,000 to...
View ArticleCould data governance actually endanger data?
One of my favorite books is SuperFreakonomics by economist Steven Levitt and journalist Stephen Dubner, in which, as with their first book and podcast, they challenge conventional thinking on a variety...
View ArticleOpen Data Grey Areas
In a previous post, I discussed some data quality and data governance issues associated with open data. In his recent blog post How far can we trust open data?, Owen Boswarva raised several good points...
View ArticleThe Internet was a mistake, now let’s fix it
Each generation over the last century has seen new technologies that become so embedded in their lives that its absence would be unimaginable. Early in the 20th century it was radio, which quickly...
View ArticleDifferences between Large and Small Companies Using BYOD
Regardless of company size, Bring-Your-Own-Device (BYOD) has become quite popular. According to Gartner, half of employers surveyed say they’re going to require workers to supply their own devices at...
View ArticleBehind the scenes
Before the advances of twentieth century medicines, doctors were often deliberately opaque. They were well known for proscribing remedies for patients that were for little more than placebos. To...
View ArticleMy digital foundations #1
It’s almost impossible to live these days without a plethora of digital identities that enable us to do almost everything. Whether it be our television, gaming, social media, travel or family security,...
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