A Culture of Governance

ABOUT this book Morgan Templar teaches her GOVERN method, six simple principles to help you GOVERN to greatness. The design and implementation of a governance program is a challenging thing to undertake. It is more than difficult to gain full business user acceptance. Governance seems very invasive to the business data owners and stewards. A […]
get Governed

ABOUT this book “Get Governed” is the textbook for data governance professionals. Templar delivers complex information in an approachable style while offering the most accurate and easy to comprehend path toward proper and complete Data Governance for businesses of all sizes and types. Templar quickly conveys why governance matters and how it benefits your […]
Data Quality: The Field Guide

Can any subject inspire less excitement than “data quality”? Yet a moment’s thought reveals the ever-growing importance of quality data. From restated corporate earnings, to incorrect prices on the web, to the bombing of the Chinese Embassy, the media reports the impact of poor data quality on a daily basis. Every business operation creates or […]
Getting in Front of Data

This book lays out the roles everyone, up and down the organization chart, can and must play to ensure that data is up to the demands of its use, in day-in, day-out work, decision-making, planning, and analytics. By now, everyone knows that bad data extorts an enormous toll, adding huge (though often hidden) costs and […]
Data Governance, Second Edition How to Design, Deploy, and Sustain effective data governance program

Data Governance, Second Edition, is for any executive, manager or data professional who needs to understand or implement a data governance program. It is required to ensure consistent, accurate and reliable data across their organization. This book offers an overview of why data governance is needed, how to design, initiate, and execute a program and how to keep the program sustainable. This valuable resource provides comprehensive guidance to beginning professionals, managers or analysts looking to improve their processes, and advanced students in Data Management and related courses. With the provided framework and case studies all professionals in the data governance field will gain key insights into launching successful and money-saving data governance program.
B2B Data-Driven Marketing

The world of business has long sought a comprehensive, practical guide to managing and executing business marketing plans and strategies. And now it’s here. B2B Data Driven Marketing: Sources, Uses, Results, meets that need. In 220 pages, the book lays out basic definitions and applications by identifying data sources, setting up an organization’s data architecture […]
Managing Your Business Data

As a business person, you have more data and more kinds of data available to you than ever before. But has it helped you generate revenue or save costs? For many executives, more data has just meant more time and money spent trying to figure out what to do with it and how to extract […]
Data Juice: 101 Real-World Stories of How Organizations Are Squeezing Value From Available Data Assets

Organisations are using data, information and knowledge as a competitive weapon. Their data, information and knowledge are arguably their most valuable assets. Yet, this fourth asset is managed badly when compared to the other three assets, namely money, people and infrastructure with considerable risk to the organisation. Executives are accountable for the success of their […]
Infonomics: How to Monetize, Manage, and Measure Information as an Asset for Competitive Advantage

Many senior executives talk about information as one of their most important assets, but few behave as if it is. They report to the board on the health of their workforce, their financials, their customers, and their partnerships, but rarely the health of their information assets. Corporations typically exhibit greater discipline in tracking and accounting […]
Information Asset Management

Organisations are using data, information and knowledge as a competitive weapon. Their data, information and knowledge are arguably their most valuable assets. Yet, this fourth asset is managed badly when compared to the other three assets, namely money, people and infrastructure with considerable risk to the organisation. Executives are accountable for the success of their […]