Our CEO and Founder Kelle O’Neal facilitated this month’s webinar, Big Data Analytics — part of the ongoing Data Insights & Analytics educational series, which is a partnership with DATAVERSITY. Kelle kicked off the one-hour webinar with a promise to cover trends and interesting new developments occurring in the world of analytics — and what they offer to the way…
If you’re struggling to implement a successful and sustainable Data Governance program at your organization, you’re in good company. Many companies repeatedly initiate Data Governance (DG) efforts because their first attempt stalled out or fell flat. Another common scenario: a governance program gets off the ground, but the DG area find it challenging to sustain the program and/or demonstrate its…
In December 2015, information management veteran John Ladley and his staff at IMCue Solutions, an enterprise information management (EIM) consultancy firm in St. Louis, merged with First San Francisco Partners (FSFP). Since that time, John has been a member of our firm’s management team overseeing the delivery of our consulting services to clients and being one of the key faces…
How effective is your organization in governing its analytics processes and the responsible analytics teams? Are you taking advantage of analytics derived from Big Data? These are questions we posed to the data management professionals dialed in to the July webinar, Governing Quality Analytics, part of the Data Insights & Analytics educational series from DATAVERSITY. First San Francisco Partners’ John…
Effective communication is key for the launch of any large-scale organizational effort. For firms implementing a new (or revamping an old) Data Governance program, communication may play an even greater role. That’s because Data Governance (DG) can be a foreign-sounding or intimidating term to employees. When you communicate what’s in it for them and why it’s important to govern data,…
Data is abstract. We can’t touch it or feel it, so we form mental concepts of it. Similarly, we find it difficult to pin down data quality with its conflicting definitions and terminology. Yet, there are fundamental concepts of data quality that information management professionals should rely on. Data Quality’s Manufacturing Roots Data quality is difficult to define, in part,…
At the heart of a data-driven organization is a data-driven culture where each employee is involved. Sound like the Holy Grail? You’re right; the pursuit to be fully data-driven is a daunting one, because it requires organizational change — and, in many cases, significant change. Changing culture doesn’t happen overnight, but there are steps you can take to shape the…
Our June webinar from DATAVERSITY’S Data Insights & Analytics webinar series featured Malcolm Chisholm, First San Francisco Partners’ Chief Innovation Officer, along with our President John Ladley as moderator. This month’s topic: Data-Centric Development and why organizations that are truly data-driven are shifting their focus from process-centric development to a data-centric approach. At the beginning of the webinar, Malcolm compared…
As a lifelong learner, I’m always up for discovering new places, people and things. As a veteran marketer, the things are the thing I get excited about — especially things related to digital marketing (my focus area). Starting my journey into the world of data management initially left me dazed and confused, but more than one year in I’ve learned…
Cultural anthropologist, author and speaker Margaret Mead once said, “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.” Now, a small group of leaders from the information management industry — including First San Francisco Partners’ CEO and Founder Kelle O’Neal and our President and Chief Delivery Officer…
For many people, learning about what others do for a living makes for an interesting conversation — and hearing someone with a passion for their career can be truly inspiring. Our May 4 Data Insights & Analytics webinar audience had the opportunity to learn about the data scientist role, ask questions and be inspired by an engaging conversation with Chief…
By definition, Big Data means a large volume of data. When it comes to the topic of data quality, you may hear that large volumes of data can, in effect, dampen out any data inconsistency. This could lead to a line of thinking that the data quality of Big Data isn’t as important. While conceptually this may be accurate, in…
Ten years ago this month, First San Francisco Partners (FSFP) came into being, opening our information management consulting services’ doors. The FSFP team and I are celebrating this milestone and, as they say, taking a walk down memory lane. In many ways, it seems like ages ago vs. a decade ago — but in other ways, it feels like only…
We kicked off our April 6 Data Insights & Analytics webinar with this polling question: “Where is your organization in its readiness to develop a formal Big Data and analytics architecture?” Our Building a Flexible and Scalable Analytics Architecture audience, which included data management professionals from around the world, could choose one of these answers: We have no plans or…