About three years ago, Steven Adler was running the privacy consulting practice at IBM. As he talked with IBM customers, he discovered that many of the large customers had some pretty complex IT ...

Unlock the power of your data with an effective data governance framework for security, compliance, and decision-making. Data governance frameworks are structured approaches to managing and utilizing ...

Is it better to monitor for quality or detect problems? It depends. Here's how to choose between active and passive data governance. Image: Friends Stock/Adobe Stock The goal of data governance is to ...

The COVID crisis has shown that ethical and effective uses of data and increased sharing of data can save lives and can be critical for society as a whole (by contrast to the use of data made by ...

While business and IT leaders readily acknowledge now that data is a business imperative, a patchwork of legacy systems and point solutions has left organizations vulnerable, reactive and unable to ...

For many organizations, data governance evokes a familiar image: rigid policies, centralized control and compliance-heavy processes that are hard to implement and even harder to maintain. Traditional ...

Data governance impacts both internal and external audiences. Viewing data as an enterprise – not individual – asset is the first step towards a strong program. The benefits of a solid data governance ...

Executives have an important and ongoing role of setting organizational cultural tone, especially as enterprises embark on various efforts to gain more value from data. Culture has a large role in ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Charles writes about organisational changes required to scale & AI. ‘Data citizens are waking up,’ says Stijn Christiaens, the ...