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Data Governance as an Enterprise Discipline
Enterprise Data Strategy
Keep the Policy, Keep the Score, Move the Council
Governance frameworks handed enterprise data strategy three habits: write the policy first, score against it, and seat a council to run it. Having stood up all three, the verdict is to keep the policy and the score as one habit and give the council the job it does well, signing off on changes the…
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Approval Is Not the Decision
Every business case that reaches a funding committee answers the same five questions, in an order the committee inherited and the case-writer did not choose. This Deep Dive answers them in that order — strategic, economic, commercial, financial, management — from five pieces this publication has…
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Does Being Named the Foundation Get a Master Data Programme Funded?
The enterprise data strategy document is a genuinely new artifact, and most writing about it narrates the same tidy maturity curve — five stages, a rising arrow, an organisation moving deliberately from siloed to strategic. Marcus B. argues that almost nobody walked that arrow. The functions…
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