Actively using metadata is both a smart way to help de-risk your domain and inevitable for a rewarding digital future based on knowledge infrastructure, the corporate nervous system. How aware is your business of metadata, and how it can presage both risk & reward? The regulatory environment spans personally identifiable information (PII), consumer data (GDPR,…
Generate internal credibility and external value from continuously curated and well-governed data which can be presented, realise value and meet compliance tests. When data is presented, so is your reputation. Presented data must stand the test of time as well as meet immediate deadlines. Do you have overlapping or duplicate reports, all draining the same…
Once you have clean data, why stint your investment? Curation isn’t just about certain datasets (as many would have it) nor just about metadata, but about sustaining the health & value of your entire data-fuelled corporate cardiovascular system. Just like the human body, a blockage anywhere in the system can prove fatal. Think again about…
Experience teaches that organisations should consider data discovery services if there is: Since organisations typically have upwards of 80% dark data (data that is unknown to them, and not understood), can you be confident that your organisation is aware of these common data issues? In the age of GDPR companies are expected to know what…
A data audit will help your organisation identify potential: For example, ‘dark’ data: data which is not analysed and from which no value accrues, is now expected to normalise at over 90%+ of unstructured organisational data according to IDC. That means: Dark data may be junk, or it may be a hoard with potential value…
Sorkin’s epitaph to failure should have been the all-time cure for any risk manager suffering from insomnia. but…