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“Data literacy” is misleading – What does leadership really need to know?

Metaphors are hard to implement. This is the first in a series of blog posts to address “data literacy.”  Data literacy is in quotes, because ...
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“Data Governance” or “data governance” There are many, many ways to tackle your data governance needs. Very often organizations start small and work their way ...
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In Data Management, Simple Is Good Until it Isn’t.

Simplicity  vs. Simple Answers –  Naming is necessary to order, but naming cannot order all things – Tao te Ching  Anyone with enough experience in ...
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A Bit More on Data Debt

John expands an article he did a few years ago with examples and much more detail
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