Recommended Reading
There is always so much wisdom to be shared. Here is a guide to essential reading that will continue to inform your data journey.
| Title | Author | Why Read this Book |
| Capitalism Without Capital | Jonathan Haskel and Stian Westlake | |
| Competing on Analytics | Tom Davenport and Jeanne Harris | |
| Data & Reality | William Kent | In Data & Reality, William Kent explores how we, people, make data, through a set of choices about what to represent and how to represent it. Written in the late 1970s, the book’s observations are even more important in the 21st century, as we are flooded with new and sometimes highly questionable forms of data. |
| Data Centric Revolution & Software Wasteland | Dave McComb | |
| Data Crush | Christopher Surdak | |
| Data Modeling for Quality | Graham Witt | |
| Data Modeling Masterclass | Steve Hoberman | |
| Data Strategy | Bernard Marr | |
| Data Strategy & The Enterprise Data Executive | Peter Aiken | |
| Digital to the Core | Mark Raskino and Graham Waller | |
| Execution – the discipline of getting things done | Cassidy and Charan | |
| Good to Great | Jim Collins | In “Good to Great” Collins researches why a few organisations outperform the market by a significant margin. The fundamental reason is cultural – the right people on the bus with a very clear vision of the destination. |
| Harvesting Intangibles | Andrew J. Sherman | |
| How to Measure Anything | Doug Hubbard | Hubbard takes a concept that many find challenging, how to quantify, and turns it on its side: any measurement is, at its simplest, a comparison. So measuring anything amounts to figuring out the appropriate comparisons and using them to learn more about the thing you want to measure. His choice to simplify the concept creates a new perspective that simplifies measurement and also shows the risks of failing to understand the assumptions built into measurement. |
| Information Driven | Robert Hillard | |
| Information Economics | Urs Birchler and Monika Bütler | |
| Intangibles: Management, Measurement, and Reporting | Baruch Lev | |
| Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men | Caroline Criado Perez | Perez assesses everyday situations through the lens of gender bias and reveals a set of challenges and indignities (the size of i-phones, the design of automobiles) that many women are aware of but that most men do not notice, because they do not have to be. She then uses this lens to demonstrate how assumptions about gender influence what data we collect, why we collect it, and how we interpret its meaning. In the face of claims about the value of artificial intelligence, this book gives one a reason to pause and reevaluate the risks associated with allowing machines to take biased human thinking to its logical conclusions. |
| Master Data Management | David Loshin | |
| Outside Insight | Jorn Lyseggen | |
| Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture | Martin Fowler | |
| Smart (Enough) Systems | James Taylor and Neil Raden | |
| Strategy Maps | Robert Kaplan and David Norton | |
| Telling Your Data Story | Scott Taylor | |
| The Business Value of Computers | Paul Strassmann | |
| The Data Asset | Tony Fischer | |
| The Demon in the Machine | Paul Davies | Davies, a physicist and cosmologist, has written an astonishing book about information and the role it plays in every level of our existence from the molecular level to the universal one. Two things fascinate me – firstly, the enormity of Davies’ thought and, secondly, that we struggle to manage the information just in our own organisations. |
| The Economics of Data, Analytics, and Digital Transformation: The theorems, laws, and empowerments to guide your organization’s digital transformation. | Bill Schmarzo | |
| The New Know | Thornton May | |
| Who Owns the Future? | Jaron Lanier |
Books, Papers, Articles & Presentations about The Leader’s Data Manifesto
- EL MANIFIESTO DE DATOS DE LOS LÍDERES: UN ESFUERZO POR CREAR CONSCIENCIA DE LO QUE ESTÁ OCURRIENDO CON LA GESTIÓN DE DATOS
- 2019 Enterprise Data World (EDW) Presentation (Boston, Massachusetts, USA. March 20, 2019)
- 2018 Enterprise Data World (EDW) Presentation (San Diego, California, USA. April 25, 2018)
- 2017 Enterprise Data World (EDW) Presentation: Introducing The Leader’s Data Manifesto (Atlanta, Georgia, USA. April 5, 2017)
Books, Papers, Articles & Presentations by Data Leaders
| Title | Author |
| Data Driven | Dr Tom Redman |
| Data Governance: How to Define, Deploy and Sustain a Data Governance Program | John Ladley |
| Ethical Data and Information Management: Concepts, Tools and Methods | Katherine O’Keefe and Daragh O Brien |
| Executing Data Quality Projects: Ten Steps to Quality Data and Trusted Information ™ | Danette McGilvray |
| Infonomics: How to Monetize, Manage, and Measure Information as an Asset for Competitive Advantage | Douglas Laney |
| Making EIM Work for Business | John Ladley |
| Measuring Data Quality for Ongoing Improvement | Laura Sebastian-Coleman |
| Navigating the Labyrinth: An Executive Guide to Data Management | Laura Sebastian-Coleman |
| Why it is important to manage information as a business asset 170329 v1 | Dr Nina Evans & James Price |
| Barriers to the Effective Deployment of Information Assets | Dr Nina Evans & James Price |
| Bad Data Costs the U.S. $3 Trillion Per Year | Dr Tom Redman in Harvard Business Review |
| Root Causes of Barriers to Information not being Managed as a Business Asset Presentation |
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