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Data lineage: the needs of and benefits to various stakeholders
Data lineage is on the radars of business and data management professionals now more than ever. Many companies understand how necessary it is. But this understanding does not often lead to immediate action. There [...]
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‘Brevity is the soul of wit’: DAMA-DMBOK in a nutshell
During a meeting a few days ago, I have received a challenging request: explain in 15 minutes how you can implement data management using the well-known Data Management Body of Knowledge (DAMA-DMBOK2)...
5 GDPR tips for small business owners
‘If your company is ready for GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation), please raise your hand’: the chairman asked the participants of the GDPR congress organized by Heliview. Guess how many people raised their hands? Right, no one...
Data-driven FP&A: the tip of the iceberg.
Part 3 of the 'FP&A and the three-headed serpent' series. The data you deal with, is the tip of the iceberg. The major part of data processing is the part that is hidden beneath the water. And this is also the place of origin of all the data quality issues. You do not have...
Why should FP&A be data-driven?
Part 2 of the 'FP&A and the three-headed serpent' series. There are three main challenges that FP&A currently dealing with. Data is the first component and is the blood of the whole process. Nowadays, everyone is talking about...
FP&A evolution and the three-headed serpent: The power dilemma.
Part 1 of the 'FP&A and the three-headed serpent' series. How far can you go with improving your FP&A practices? Recently, I have encountered a paper by Prophix where the authors are...
New vision on Data lineage/ flow in DAMA-DMBOK2.
Data Lineage in DAMA-DMBOK2...and how it relates to BCBS 239 and GDPR requirements. What unites [...]
“Let’s speak the same language…” and develop a business glossary.
"Speak the same business language" is one of the success factors in business communication. A [...]
FP&A: Advanced analytics & Software solutions
Finance analytics software is the topic of this article. Once in a while, I spot [...]
Making sense of Data-related roles
What are Data-related roles? If you search on Google, you will most probably get a [...]
FP&A: What data do I own?
A couple of weeks ago I joined the meeting of the Amsterdam FP&A Board where [...]
BCBS 239: Data Lineage or Information Value Chain?
If I had an hour to solve a problem and my life depended on the [...]
FP&A: Maturity model and Data management.
As promised in one of my previous articles, let us go deeper into the relationship [...]
Lessons learned: Data management & the 3 Lines of Defense concept (3 LoD)
Data management & 3 lines of defense. Several months ago, I got a task to [...]
FP&A: everything twists around data. Finance data management.
Finance data management... ...or Why all FP&A Roads go to Data management. Even if for [...]
How mature is Data Management in your company?
The question looks simple. To promote an idea of data management (DM) development the following [...]
Am I a successful Data Manager?
We, data management professionals, are lucky. There are plenty of well-developed international standards in place, [...]
