Hello! I’m Mark Horseman, and welcome to The Cool Kids Corner. This is my monthly check-in to share with you the people and ideas I encounter as a data evangelist with DATAVERSITY. This month we’re talking data literacy and change management. What is data literacy? Why is it important? What are the barriers? How do […]
The Importance of a Change Management Plan for Digital Transformation
In times of uncertainty in the global business landscape, the organizations that are quick to adapt and respond to change are the ones that survive crises such as the pandemic. In the past five years and especially during the pandemic, global organizations have been under tremendous pressure to adopt digital transformation to survive. The truth is that […]
Achieving Digital Resiliency and Agility with Organizational Change Management
IDC’s recent Future Enterprise Resiliency and Spending survey found that 65% of global decision-makers expect concerns about supply chain disruption, inflation, labor shortages, geopolitical tensions, and COVID variants to continue restraining the pace of recovery in global economic activity through the last quarter of the year and into 2023. The biggest challenge that companies face today is managing through […]
How Data Automation Is Reshaping Pharma Regulatory Publishing
Pharmaceutical regulators are facing ever-evolving, complex, and stringent requirements for the regulatory approval of new and existing products on the market. What’s more, as technology changes our ability to capture data from more sources, the volume of data in the life sciences sphere is growing exponentially, creating a challenging data analytics paradigm. The key is how to […]
Data Governance Trends in 2022
Way back in the early 2000s, Data Governance wasn’t really much of a thing. There were a few really early pioneers that were doing Data Governance, and they were laying the groundwork, but governance was not a recognized capability. Companies who did see some value in Data Governance were primarily focused on the benefit to […]
3 Misconceptions About Change Management That May Be Holding You Back
Click to learn more about author Gaurav Belani. There’s no denying that successfully navigating an enterprise through a transitional period is no easy task. As it turns out, most people are inherently fearful of change for one reason or another. In both our personal and professional lives, we seem to resist the new in an […]
Case Study: Enterprise Metadata Repository Facilitates Change at the University of Washington
This past summer The University of Washington went live with Workday, a Software-as-a-Service human capital management solution. It replaced a decades-old HR/payroll (HR/P) system and represented the largest administrative transformation in the school’s history. Human resources personnel are affected by the change, of course, but so too is practically everyone else on campus. That’s to […]
How to Protect a Database: All About Data Security Today
Click to learn more about author Thomas Lanigan. The protection of databases is essential to various industries and sectors, such as finance, banking, eCommerce, and IT. Most of your transactions are based on your database’s security because it holds vital details, such as passwords, usernames, customer credit card details, etc. Data security as a term […]
Change is Good, Monitoring Change is Better, Improving Change Monitoring is Best
Click to learn more about author Thomas LaRock. Change is good — that’s what “progress” is. Usually, changes make our apps better and improve our tools. But no one likes it when a bad change hobbles those apps and causes us to waste hours sifting through code to figure out where it all went wrong. And […]
Case Study: Helsana Automates Their Data Warehouse Infrastructure
Switzerland’s largest health insurance provider Helsana serves one out of every four insured, which translates into 1.9 million customers and 6.4 billion Swiss francs in sales annually. In the past, innovation had been prevented by reliance on hand-coding, manual processes, and institutional knowledge held by individuals, said Gallus Messmer, data warehouse architect at Helsana — […]