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You Cannot Give What the System Took From You
July 6, 2026 I used to be the person with the answer before anyone finished asking the question. I thought that was leadership. I ...
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William "Bill" Post, the genius behind the iconic Pop-Tart, left behind a legacy that goes far beyond breakfast table...
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When my wife, Dianna, and I visited Vilnius in November 2024, we made our way to the famous cathedral that anchors th...
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Reflections from Mesh Lab: Session 4. Two classrooms. Thirty feet apart. Same school. Same kids in different periods....
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The Human‑Agent Hybrid Organization: Time to Re...
We’ve crossed a milestone in the evolution of work. What once was the realm of academic thought experiments, from ear...
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Pilot to Production: A Modern Playbook for Agen...
Will agents help enterprises achieve the long-awaited goal of democratizing analytics? They might. In fact, the fast-...
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Airport Adventures: The Value of Planning Ahead...
Okay. I'm going to tell you something embarrassing. Actually, I already told a friend of mine, and the fact that I ev...
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Why CIOs Are Shifting Away From Experimental IT...
A Chief Data Officer at a mid-cap logistics firm I advise was showcasing an AI tool designed to optimize container st...
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AI Models Are Commoditizing: Your Data Isn't
Last quarter, a logistics firm I advise deployed an agentic AI system to automate supplier contract negotiations. Wit...
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Drucker's Five Questions in the Age of AI: A Te...
I received an email yesterday that took me back 30 years to when I did Management Science at university and specifica...
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The System Was Never Designed to See What Makes...
This post is part of a year-long thought leadership series, produced in partnership with Solutions Review's Insight J...
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When Your Data Governance Program Thinks Like B...
In a corner of the natural world, there’s a plant that seems to break the rules. Under optimal conditions, certain ba...
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What happened to Decisions?
There’s a fundamental mistake playing out in boardrooms right now.Organizations are racing to build AI solutions, wit...
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Five Winning Traits of Agentic Analytics Leaders
Sponsored by Simba Intelligence from insightsoftware Data + Analytics. Just 27% of AI adopters have reached productio...
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Cloud AI Innovators Teach Us to Modernize Our T...
The cloud has spawned rapid AI innovation. Given this, it’s no surprise that all-in cloud adopters have something to ...
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Your Executives Need to Hear This Before Your N...
AI conversations are happening in most organizations right now, and if you work in data governance, you're probably r...
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The Five Stages of Data & AI Strategy Grief
I've been working with a number of clients from one end of the spectrum to the other. Greenfield to Brownfield to spe...
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The Missing Piece in Olympic Analysis
A sprinter walks off the Olympic track in fourth place, close enough to the podium to feel the heat of it but not clo...
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Companies Don’t Have a Data Problem: They Have ...
For more than two decades, organisations have tried to make the Chief Data Officer work. They renamed it, expanded it...
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Reflections from Mesh Lab Episode 2: Dismantle ...
We do not have a human skills problem. We have a condition problem. And until we are honest about that distinction, e...
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Why Value is Misunderstood Across Organizations
Value means different things depending on where you sit in an organization.For the board, value is measurable: it’s t...
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From Breakfast Bliss to Data-Driven Diplomacy w...
William “Bill” Post, the genius behind the iconic Pop-Tart, left behind a legacy that goes far beyond bre...
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The Cathedral of Data (Understanding Scale and ...
When my wife, Dianna, and I visited Vilnius in November 2024, we made our way to the famous cathedral that anchors th...
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Pilot to Production: A Modern Playbook for Agen...
Will agents help enterprises achieve the long-awaited goal of democratizing analytics? They might. In fact, the fast-...
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Airport Adventures: The Value of Planning Ahead...
Okay. I’m going to tell you something embarrassing. Actually, I already told a friend of mine, and the fact tha...
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What happened to Decisions?
There’s a fundamental mistake playing out in boardrooms right now.Organizations are racing to build AI solutions, wit...
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Five Winning Traits of Agentic Analytics Leaders
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Why CIOs Are Shifting Away From Experimental IT...
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Rise of the Meta Catalog: Integrating Metadata ...
Note: This blog was sponsored by Pentaho. The data catalog is like a restaurant menu: it organizes food for AI. But t...
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Agentic Data Management and Data Observability:...
Sponsored by Acceldata Data engineers struggle mightily to prepare and deliver data to voracious consumers that range...
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Data Quality Risks are a Leading Cause of Proje...
Many organizations underestimate the complexity and severity of data-related risks. Poor documentation, semantic mism...
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The Data Catalyst³ (Cubed): Accelerating Data G...
My new book is now available! The book focuses on accelerating data governance program success by multiplying the imp...
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Making Data Governance Processes Accessible
One of the most practical questions I encounter in data governance is deceptively simple: how should we document our ...
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Gobbling Up Assumptions: Ben Franklin’s Turkey ...
You know that Ben Franklin turkey story? Sure, it’s a quirky story, but it teaches us something crucial about d...
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