In this final fourth series episode, John and Mark continue their conversation with Sam Spencer, CEO and co-founder of Aristotle Metadata. The focus this time is an experiment Sam’s been running with the Australian government....
In this episode, John Ladley and Mark Cooper conclude their conversation with Tony Mazzarella. They discuss whether hiring a Chief Data Officer will “fix” data issues (hint: it won’t), and look at governance as a...
John Ladley and Mark Cooper welcome Tony Mazzarella to Rock Bottom! He just completed a Ph.D. focused on Data Governance, reframing it not as a static control layer but as a dynamic system that connects...
In our first series, Doug Laney introduced us to Datanomics. He is also the author of Data Juice. In this episode he returns to Rock Bottom to go into more detail about the approaches and...
A recent CDO Magazine article begins, “Data governance, as it is currently practiced, is failing. Despite being positioned as essential for data quality, regulatory compliance, and strategic decision-making, data governance often falls short.” In this...
Would anybody disagree that Data Governance isn’t working out the way we had all hoped? Yes, we’ve seen successes, but for the most part it’s been like trying to throw an angel food cake under...
When you look in the dictionary between “hard place” and “rock” you will find “analytics management.” Data Consumers demand high-quality data. Data Producers say it’s good enough to run the business so it’s good enough...
Everyone says that data has value, but what does that mean? How do you measure that value? This week we talk a little less about people and a little more about business and monetization. Our...
Data Debt is both a measure and a message. It helps businesses grasp how important data can be, because when all else has failed, many organizations have examined Data Debt and discovered a significant aspect...
So many times we get our words reversed when naming subject areas. Instead of Data Ethics, for example, we should be talking about ethics as applied to data. This ties our interest to the broader...