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Technics Publications LLC Getting in Front on Data by Thomas C Redman
This book lays out the roles everyone up and down the organization chart can and must play to ensure that data is up to the demands of its use in dayin dayout work decisionmaking planning and analytics.By now everyone knows that bad data extorts an enormous toll adding huge (though often hidden) costs and making it more difficult to make good decisions and leverage advanced analyses. While the problems are pervasive and insidious they are also solvable! As Tom Redman the Data Doc explains in Getting in Front on Data the secret lies in getting the right people in the right roles to get in front of the management and social issues that lead to bad data in the first place.Everyone should see himself or herself in this book. We are all both data customers and data creatorsafter all we use data created by others and create data used by others. And all of us must step up to these roles. As data customers we must clarify our most important needs and communicate them to data creators. As data creators we must strive to meet those needs by finding and eliminating the root causes of error. Getting in Front on Data proposes new roles for data professionals as: embedded data managers in helping data customers and creators complete their work DQ team leads in connecting customers and creators pulling the entire program together and training people on their new roles data maestros in providing deep expertise on the really tough problems chief data architects in establishing common data definitions and technologists in increasing scale and decreasing unit cost. Getting in Front on Data introduces a new role the data provocateur the motive force in attacking data quality properly! This book urges everyone to unleash their inner provocateur. Finally it crystallizes what senior leaders must do if their entire organizations are to enjoy the benefits of highquality data!show more