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...
Nearly a hundred thousand corporate employees have been terminated in mass layoffs this year. Most just in the past few months. And ostensibly because of AI. We’re not convinced. Our scheduled guest was unexpectedly unavailable...
Will Todd Corporate and Senator Ostik come to blows or will they find common ground? Find out as the Secretary of Data confirmation hearing wraps up. This episode also concludes our three-part Data Governance arc....
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...
According to some research, about half of large organizations are“Data Driven,” meaning they are “driving business innovation with data.” According to other research, that number is about half of that. But wait, isn’t that what...
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...
For so many of us, Data Quality is like a healthy diet and daily exercise. You want the benefits, but you don’t want to do what it takes to get them. Interrogating the data is...
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...