Proper information governance will help to ensure that executives, auditors and shareholders can trust the financial results being presented. Information governance is about changing behaviour to maximise the value of data, manage complexity and mitigate risks.
Almost everybody working with personal data will be aware of the glut of legislation, worldwide, that is seeking to protect consumers against the abuse of their personal data. In Europe, GDPR; in South Africa, PoPI, in Nigeria, DPR; in California, CCPA… Around the world, data laws are changing to promote the ethical use of consumer…
Learn how DNB is using data to reinvent itself as a customer-centric, digital bank
Earlier this month, Data Governance coach, Nicola Askham published a piece entitled Why you need data governance. In the piece she observed that the driver for data governance is shifting from defensive drivers such as compliance to offensive drivers enabling revenue. Nicola describes how data management activities – such as data quality and master data…
Earlier this year, our partner, Syncsort published the results of their 2019 Data Trends survey. A key finding; IT is grappling with data delivery and value Only nine percent of respondents called their organisation very effective at getting value from data, with many struggling to make data accessible to users. What is Data Streaming? Data…
Both mainframe and Hadoop skills are in high demand – bridge the gap and reduce costly, time-consuming data collection and preparation tasks
Most companies would acknowledge that quality customer data is important. In most cases, however, customer data quality is not good enough. Why? Changing business requirements Most businesses have a history. Customer data may have been accumulated over years, or decades. Data that was captured in the past may not have complied with the requirements of…
Last week we explored the reality that, for most companies, more one in three customer records is out of date, or otherwise of poor quality. A common approach to solving the problem is to look to third party data providers to provide updated data. This approach can work, but, in my opinion should be a…
Digital transformation is big business. Research firm Gartner predicts that digital business will represent an average 36% of a business’s overall revenue by 2020. Small wonder that the Chief Digital Officer is becoming a key executive role within many large companies. How does the Chief Digital Officer work with the other CDO (the Chief Data…
Almost every business has a data quality problem. In a study involving 75 executives only 3% found that their data fell within the minimum accepted range of 97 or more correct data records out of 100. Yet for many businesses struggle on with poor data hampering their business and putting them at risk. The timing…
Tomorrow will be South Africa’s 6th general election since 1994’s first democratic election. Is the economy working for you? Are you getting the services you need? Are you being treated fairly? Let your voice be heard! Irrespective of your political affiliation – voting is the only practical way to have your voice be heard. I…
Artificial intelligence and machine learning are the new “big data’ – the hottest topic in analytics and decision making. The premise – that computers that can think and learn, like humans, can replace humans for many tasks.. Projects like driverless cars; the Internet of Things (IoT) – where machines and devices contaminate amongst each other…
