Category Archives for Data Strategy
Data Transformers Podcast
The wait is over! The DataTransformers podcast is now live on iTunes or your favorite podcast player. My co-host Peggy Tsai and I are very happy to launch the Data Transformers podcast with the goal to accelerate digital transformation by bridging the gap between business goals and technology initiatives using Data as glue. With the rapid advancement […]
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How To Deliver Data Strategy In 4 Steps
Part 1 of this series dealt with “Data Strategy – Your Ticket To Future Success – Part 1.” We’ll now talk about “How” to deliver Data Strategy in some simple steps. Strategy is about doing the right things and tactics is about doing things right. Data Strategy is about doing the right things to distill Data […]
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Data Strategy – What, Why, When, Who, Where
What is data Strategy? I’d like to use couple of statistics from IDG’s Enterprise 2016 Data & Analytics Research to start this article. As per their research, 78% of enterprises agree that collection & analysis of big data has the potential to fundamentally change the way their company does business over the next 1 to […]
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Data Strategy Components
In this series on Data Strategy, we covered 5 ‘W’s of Data Strategy and ‘How To Deliver Data Strategy In 4 Steps’. In this article, we’ll cover the various components of Data Strategy. I believe that Data Strategy document should include all or at least some of these components: Background / Context: This section should […]
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Data Quality – Simple 6 Step Process
We all heard of many horrors of poor data quality. Companies with millions of records with “(000)000-0000” as customer contact numbers, “99/99/99” as date of purchase, 12 different gender values, shipping addresses with no state information etc. The cost of ‘dirty data’ to enterprise and organizations is real. For example, US Postal Service estimated that […]
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