The Currency of Information: Measuring the Value of Data (Part Four)
Data professionals often talk about the importance of managing data and information as organizational assets, but what does this mean? What is the actual business value of data and information? How can...
View ArticleThe AI Playbook: Providing Important Reminders to Data Professionals
Eric Siegel’s “The AI Playbook” serves as a crucial guide, offering important insights for data professionals and their internal customers on effectively leveraging AI within business operations. The...
View ArticleHow Data Analytics Is Transforming Due Diligence
Due diligence is the complex process of assessing a potential investment and ensuring it is a sound one. It involves the gathering, classifying, and analyzing of large volumes of data. Given its very...
View ArticleEyes on Data: Transforming Data Challenges into Real Progress
In a world increasingly dominated by data, organizations are grappling with the need to effectively manage and harness this valuable asset. And with increased regulations and compliance, opportunities...
View ArticleThe Role of Citizen Data Scientists vs. Data Scientists in Augmented Analytics
If you are an IT professional, a business manager, or an executive, you have probably been following the progress of the citizen data scientist movement. For a number of years, Gartner and other...
View ArticleCreative Ways to Surf Your Data Using Virtual and Augmented Reality
Organizations often struggle with finding nuggets of information buried within their data to achieve their business goals. Technology sometimes comes along to offer some interesting solutions that can...
View ArticleThe End of Agile – Part 1 (A Brief History of Agile)
In recent years, we have seen substantial pushback on many fronts against Agile as a viable and important project management methodology. In my 2016 book, “Growing Business Intelligence”[i] (a book...
View ArticleDo Citizen Data Scientists Add Value or Is the Concept Mere Buzz?
If you read trade or industry journals or business publications, you have probably noticed that the subject of the citizen data scientist is fraught with controversy. While Gartner and other...
View ArticleData Crime: Arizona Is Not Arkansas
I call it a “data crime” when someone is abusing or misusing data. When we understand these stories and their implications, it can help us learn from mistakes and prevent future data crimes. The...
View ArticleCrossing the Data Divide: AI Data Assistants — A Data Leader’s Force Multiplier
The focus of my last column, titled Crossing the Data Divide: Data Catalogs and the Generative AI Wave, was on the impact of large language models (LLM) and generative artificial intelligence (AI) and...
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