NYC Data Governance Trillium Seminar

Earlier this month, I presented to the Trillium User Seminar in New York City. This post sat as a draft while I worked on some fun executive level projects. More on that in the future. Thanks to Mike O’Connor from Trillium for the invitation to speak. For any remaining non-believers, Mike found me through Twitter and this blog. I was also honored to be on the same agenda as Jim Orr. I’ve attended several of Jim’s Data Governance seminars and appreciate that he’s able to leverage his experience into credible, expert recommendations.

I presented a Data Governance Approach that included a description of how I started my Data Governance program, the Lightweight Data Governance theory, Benefits to Sales and Marketing, and Data Governance in a Down Economy. Most of that theory is available in other articles in the Data Governance folder, but if you’d like me to dive deeper into any of them, please comment on this post.

The seminar included about 30 attendees and the level of Data Governance expertise was wide ranging. Regardless of experience, the group asked great questions that focused on two areas: Where do I start, and how do I present this to people who don’t understand Data Governance? Keep an eye out for another post on Presenting Data Governance to the Executive level for answers. It was also fun to discuss a wide range of Data Quality issues including globalization, bridging organizational silos, and which data matters most. Fun stuff. More to come.