Tag: data steward

Data Management
Jim Harris 0
Data steward is a tough role to play

In my previous post I explained that even if your organization does not have anyone with data steward as their official job title, data stewardship plays a crucial role in data governance and data quality. Let’s assume that this has inspired you to formally make data steward an official job title. How

Jim Harris 0
For those about to steward data, we salute you

Data stewardship is one of the most important, and commonly misunderstood, aspects of data quality and data governance. Not only are the characteristics of a good data steward a rare combination of skills to find in an individual employee, the culture of most organizations does not nurture the development of data stewardship. It would not

Daniel Teachey 0
Treat your data steward like a rock star

Every day of the year, there's a holiday celebrating one thing or another. In fact, you probably didn't know that Oct. 22 WAS CAPS LOCK DAY. Whoops. Or, if you're like me, you completely spaced on Oct. 26. It was Mother-in-Law Day. Boy, we'll be hearing about that for the

Steve Putman 0
The ideal data steward

Data stewardship is one of the prime positions in any data management organization. The business and technical stewards are the conduit between the organizing functions in the management structure (which determine policies and processes for data management) and the data management functions that perform the actual work, such as data

Steve Putman 3
Is a data steward a data scientist?

One of the hottest job descriptions in the data management field in the last couple of years is the position of “data scientist.” The rise of this job description matches the rise of the concept of big data – data sources that are very large in volume, change frequently, and

Dylan Jones 0
How to nurture a data steward culture

In my last post I discussed one of the important traits that I feel truly great data stewards possess – the ability to effect change. Today I want to talk about how you actually identify, train and nurture everyday workers into the role of data stewards. Most organisations don’t have