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The Why of Data Governance
Data Governance is the foundation for information and cyber security.
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Getting started with Data Governance
Often folks simply do not know where to get started with their data governance program in an organisation. I recently gave a talk at the Australian Cyber Conference 2021 in Canberra on how to get started with a data governance program. This talk is based on my experience of running
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Do one thing...
Achieving things. There is a great deal of advice about how to achieve things. Here is mine...
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Is data really new oil?
In the past I used this analogy of data being the new oil in several presentations in the context of showing people that there was an awful lot of it to manage. But that was before I thought about it.
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Thought Leadership Series: The Future of Education
Was on a panel at Microsoft Reactor in Sydney: "Collaboration, productivity and remaining connected have taken a new form in an increasingly virtual world. The way we learn and engage with our peers and community has presented challenges and opportunities. Some task or even jobs that require face to
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Nominated: Corinium 2020 Business of Data Top 100 Innovators in #Data and #Analytics
Honoured to have been named as one of the 2020 Business of Data Top 100 Innovators in Data and Analytics by Corinium Global Intelligence. Thank-you to the team at Corinium for the nomination. Again, a huge thank-you to my team at UNSW who are the ones that bring my crazy
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Global Top 100 Data Visionaries - 2020
I am truly honoured to be included among the Global Top 100 Data Visionaries: These are the leaders who are vividly innovating with analytics without compromising on trust and privacy. My data team at UNSW are truly marvellous - they are always willing to come along on the innovation journey,
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IWD 2019: the possibility of balance
For 2019 the International Women's Day theme is "Balance for Better" and with Ribit's focus on ESTEAM students and accelerating innovation in industry, I am sharing my "own personal story and experience as an employee and employer, how you jumped started your career,
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Critical conversations at work
Managing people is a skill I've been a manager for over twenty years now, managing teams ranging in size from 2 to 263. One thing that I have learned is that if you want to do anything big then you need to work through other people to achieve
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Some thoughts on digital and data Ethics
The Ethics Centre Humans have been thinking about the moral principles that govern our behaviour or the way in which we conduct ourselves for aeons. We are moving at lightspeed towards a new and exciting future that is built on algorithms, data, and digital technologies. Ethics is an area of
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Data Governance: 5 Tips for getting started
I've been reflecting on the past year and one big focus area was data governance. Rolling out a data governance program along with an Information Security Management System (ISMS) is a big job for a large and complex organisation, and it is a multi-year project. We are in
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Innovation, government, and #policyhack
Can a government really change the way it does innovation by doing a #policyhack ? It was refreshing to hear the Turnbull government immediately turn around the depressingly negative rhetoric of the Abbott era and start talking about innovation, agility, and action. And it was a nice surprise when Wyatt Roy