(or why data governance helps change behaviour)   A sausage machine has two parts—what goes in and what comes out. We’ve all heard “garbage in, garbage out.” This is an excellent shorthand for the idea that the quality of an output …

Introduction  One of the reasons that law firms ask for Iron Carrot’s help is after trying and failing to adopt a data governance framework. Relaunching a failed programme so that it lands successfully requires three things:  Doing the discovery and …

What is data lineage? Data lineage draws a picture of where your data starts and where it ends up. This picture could contain different levels of detail depending on the audience that needs it. Data lineage can be created manually …

What is a Critical Data Asset?  This is another topic with loads and loads of definitions on the internet. Most of these are confusing unless you’re a real data guru.    It doesn’t help that critical data assets are often referred …

Information Governance vs. Data Governance  A frequent question that comes up in stakeholder engagement is, “What’s the difference between information governance and data governance?” An equally frequent question is, “Why does our firm need both information governance and data governance?”  …