What is resilience really? Is it being able to pick yourself up after facing adversity? The ability to calm your mind when its spinning out of control? or even the ability to face grief and know that in time you will be OK. I think it can mean different things…

Taking a little break from my more technical articles to reflect, I have been ruminating about my past, the career decisions I have taken and all the support I have received. I have always valued mentorship throughout my career, in all forms be that traditional 1–2–1 mentoring or group sessions…

I’m a firm believer in the fact that a good tool is only as good as its use cases, blindly thinking that a tool will fix all of your problems will only end in tears, in this series I am going to explore the tools for data governance, to be…

The concept of data maturity is quite simple really, its a measurement of how successful your data governance program is, and if conducted in an open manner can provide valuable feedback on areas of improvement. Its used to visualise improvement over time, most reviews in my experience are conducted…

For a data governance program to succeed there is a requirement for an operating structure, where activities take place, how are decisions tracked, approved even challenged. For the purposes of this short article we wont go into the details of establishing the structure practically, discussion for another thread. …

It feels like a lot of time and effort is sent on defining roles, most of the time representing the same thing, there are nuances that need to be observed such as making the content fit your brand, rewording sections to align to the business motives, underlying all the fluffy…

The practical differences between data governance and data management Lawrence Giordano and Patrick Onions, September 2021 Introduction This paper explores whether data governance is distinct from data management in practice, or whether organisations treat it as a catch-all for operational data problem-solving. …