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Thinking About “Data Program Governance”
Creating a data program governance strategy is not unlike creating other types of enterprise business strategies.
Learning From General Electric’s Big Data Challenges
Two risks are apparent for GE’s approach which may also be relevant to other industries where cloud-based analytical platforms are being developed and marketed. (I’m thinking here, for example, of medical devices, prescription medicine, and treatment costs.)
Can Government Regulations Drive Improvements in Enterprise Data Governance?
Government regulators need to be sensitive to the costs of complying with and overseeing the regulations they impose on data management, as do the organizations that are regulated. Costs related to data oversight, quality control, standardization, security, and privacy all need to be considered in comparison with the quantitative and qualitative benefits that will be generated.
When it comes to marketing data, “With much data comes much responsibility"
If you’ve spent any time in the market research business you know how cost competitive data services can become. Pressures to maintain data quality mount while customers seem to always want more while paying less.
Does Replacing Freedom of Information Request Handling With Open Data Based Self Service Reduce Operating Costs?
What I would really like to see are numbers on how making data “open” impacts the costs of providing citizen responsive services.
Government Performance Measurement and DATA Act Implementation Need to be Coordinated
Hopefully a coordinated data management strategy is something that Treasury, OMB, GAO, and the White House are already working on.
The Digital Accountability and Transparency Act (DATA) making its way through the US Congress regarding Federal financial reporting has several implications:
When Does a Public Data Good Become a Private Data Resource?
It may be that the greatest challenge facing private entrepreneurs in developing new and valuable information products and services based at least partially on public data will be public resistance to paying for information, no matter how new, innovative, or unique these producrts or services are.
Extended Project Deadlines are a Double Edged Sword
At minimum, project and program managers need the ability to know and communicate to project and program stakeholders what the implications are of changed deadlines in terms of cost, quality, and performance.