Yesterday’s DM Radio broadcast on data federation
I enjoyed appearing on the The DM Radio session yesterday The Extended Enterprise: Federated Data Models hosted by Eric Kavanagh…
NYT article on IBM’s Jeopardy-playing computer
We've been waiting for months for this New York Times magazine article about Watson, the Jeopardy-playing computer--and the subject of…
Ethics and Fraud – From a Gray Area to Prison
I was recently honored to be a keynote speaker at the Institute of Management Accountant’s 91st Annual Conference in Baltimore,…
Perspectives on Gist: very useful, contributes to agility and efficiency
I really like what I do. Part of the reason why is I get to continuously search for new technologies…
The Prince of Data Governance
The difference between politics and policies was explained in the recent blog post A New Dimension in Data Governance Directives:…
8 Rules for Managing Complexity
At my new client this past week, I faced a familiar question: What’s the right level of complexity? I had…
Capturing Knowledge, and Making in ‘Transferable’ (3 of 4)
Classroom teaching doesn't scale ... We’ve talked about the importance of training material, and ways to make it “findable”. The…
CTO Perspectives on Cyber Security Bill
On June 10, 2010, the US Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee (HSGAC) unveiled a major cybersecurity bill designed…
Designing products for single and multiplayer modes
The first million people who bought VCRs bought them before there were any movies available to watch on them. They…
Jack Bauer and Enforcing Data Governance Policies
In my recent blog post Red Flag or Red Herring?, I explained that the primary focus of data governance is…
