Data - Owned, Documented, Enforced

Your CDO walks into your office on a Monday morning and drops a report on your desk.

"We have a data quality problem."

You've heard this before. You bought the catalog. You stood up the governance committee. You hired the data engineers. You approved the platform migration.

The report still has three numbers that don't agree with each other and nobody can tell you which one is right.

Here's what nobody told you: the platform was never the problem. The problem is that nobody owns the data. Nobody documented where it comes from. And nobody has the authority to enforce what good looks like.

Data - Owned, Documented, Enforced is twelve articles on the discipline that actually fixes it. Not the technology. The discipline.

If you're a data or technology leader who has spent money on tools and is still having the same conversation you were having two years ago — this was written for you.