From Dark Data to Illumination
You’ve probably heard it countless times: “data is the new oil.” It conjures the image of a prospector striking it rich discovering “black gold.” Or you might think of Jed...
90-Day AI: 5 Quick Start AI-Powered Solutions
Last year, I wrote a blog aimed at demystifying artificial intelligence and providing some alternatives to long-term, custom projects. Indeed, these large-scale endeavors can be daunting, especially for an organization...
What is Data Governance and Why it Matters?
When you think about the data topics that really sizzle, governance is not often very high on the list. It’s understandable. Artificial intelligence, big data, self-service analytics – these are...
Data Literacy: The New Frontier in Workplace Skills
The first resume I ever saw was my mother’s. It was printed from our Commodore 64 on a dot-matrix printer. Prominently featured at the top was typing speed in words...
Data Excellence for Non-profits
Data is the hidden horsepower sitting within every organization. But it takes a whole-of-organization effort to truly become more data-driven and data empowered—an effort that includes leaders and individual contributors...
The Pursuit of Data Excellence
I can’t remember the first time I heard the term “Center of Excellence”, but I remember immediately falling in love with it. It was really just a rebranding of the...
Imagination is More Important than Data Sources
Albert Einstein once said, “imagination is more important than knowledge.” Really. He said it. I’ve found that Einstein belongs to a holy trinity of folks that tend to get all...
The Quantity of Quality
As a measurement consultant, I work with companies to evolve their metrics and envision how they can measure what was once thought immeasurable. Some find it daunting to take “fuzzy”...
AI: Less What, More Why
Last month, I wrote about what artificial intelligence is, and what it is not. In the very short time between then and now, I heard a much more concise definition...