Upcoming Blog Posts

June has been a light month for blog posts. I’ve settled on upcoming topics, and even drafted my next couple of posts out. Why the slow month? I took a detour into Lean BI research that proved uninteresting to write about. I’ll scrap that. Gone also is my brief foray into Cloud Computing for BI. I’m just not an expert there. Good to learn about, but nothing I want to associate my name with yet. I also had to knock out a conference presentation for this Summer.

I’ve settled on the following upcoming topics. Bear with me while I get them out there. Enjoy the previous posts in the Data Governance folder. Also, please comment if there are any areas you’d like me to explore.

1) Lightweight Data Governance: A Starting Point

A continuation of the previous post. I’ve finished my MIT Information Quality Symposium presentation for this Summer, and think it would be helpful to write some background on the theory I’m developing. In a recent conversation with a Data Governance colleague, they referred to the work as “different from what everyone else is doing.” I hope that’s a good thing. Either way, it confirmed that the presentation will be provocative for that group. So I’ve got that going for me.

2) Data Quality and Data Governance Blogs I’d Recommend

I’ve been keeping a list of those bloggers I think are really good. I look for people who put their opinions out there, and keep the topic light. I’m also a fan of those who are tool agnostic. Too many in our field are married to their vendors. It’s a bad position to take.

3) Demographic and Firmagraphic Appends

A continuation of my B2C vs. B2B series. In this post I’ll explore where the value is, how to incorporate and whether you should even bother. Have you maximized your own data first? Are there other ways to get access to this data for free? Some podcaster’s I follow think so. More to come in the blog post.