Law Firm Data Governance News #15
CJ Anderson
Helping Law Firms use Data Governance for Operational Excellence | Host of the Law Firm Data Governance Podcast
Welcome to issue 15 of Iron Carrot’s Newsletter: Law Firm Data Governance News. Each month, I’ll highlight our latest posts on Data Governance across LinkedIn, our Website, the Podcast, and other social media locations. It’s a lot of places to keep track of, so this newsletter is the best place to find out what we’ve been up to. Please subscribe (if you haven’t already) – that way, you won’t miss an issue!
We like to practice what we teach, and recently a lot of work has been going on in the background to organise our internal systems, and of course, we are following best practice data governance guidelines as we go. You may have noticed that we also now have a very talented social media assistant, Carly Murray , who has taken on the tasks of reworking all our social images with an updated look and feel, managing and updating the website, and a lot of other social things as well!
Welcoming a New Consultant
I am delighted to announce that Hasnain Hudda has recently joined Iron Carrot as a Senior Data Governance Consultant. Hasnain will be working with CJ on some of our more complex pieces of work, plus directly leading other projects with clients as well. Hasnain joins us from KPMG and we're excited to see how he can help law firms with his extensive Data Governance skill set.
Articles You May Have Missed
We all lead busy lives, so here are a few articles you may have missed when they were first published:
Master vs Reference Data
It doesn't help that critical data assets are often referred to as CDAs, KDEs (Key Data Elements) or CDEs (Critical Data Elements). It doesn't matter what you call them. Like everything else in business (or in life), call them by the name that means something to your stakeholders.
We use a couple of short definitions for Critical Data Assets. Both mean the same thing, but they are worded differently for different...
Read more: LinkedIn or IronCarrot.com
5 ways law firms fail when trying to adopt a data governance framework
One of the reasons that law firms ask for Iron Carrot’s help is after trying and failing to adopt a data governance framework. Relaunching a failed programme so that it lands successfully requires three things:
Doing the discovery and root cause analysis for failures has let us identify the five most common ways that law firms fail when trying to adopt a data governance framework...
Read More: LinkedIn or IronCarrot.com
Getting good quality sausages out of a law firm data sausage machine
A sausage machine has two parts—what goes in and what comes out. We’ve all heard "garbage in, garbage out." This is an excellent shorthand for the idea that the quality of an output is dependent on the quality of the input.
In other words, if the data quality of the authoritative source system is low, the quality of the business intelligence dashboard, AI or knowledge product will also be low.
Read More: LinkedIn or IronCarrot.com
Unleashing Potential: Data Governance, Change Management and Overcoming Cognitive Bias
The crucial role of data governance in the evolving landscape of legal practice cannot be overstated. Yet, despite the apparent benefits, the journey toward effective data governance is often fraught with obstacles. Surprisingly, the most formidable barrier is not the complexity of the technology involved or the intricacies of processes but something far more unpredictable and deeply ingrained...
Read More: LinkedIn or IronCarrot.com
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Catch up on All Previous Articles…
All Iron Carrot articles are available on LinkedIn and our Website, so these links offer an easy way to catch up on any you’ve missed or want to re-read:
Law Firm Data Governance Podcast
There's been two more episodes added to season 4 since the last newsletter, so be sure to check out Episodes 6 and 7, if you haven't already:
Season 4 episode 7 - Talking Data With... Antonio Acu?a MBE (Kennedys)
Season 4 Episode 6 - Talking Data With... Melanie Farquharson (3Kites Consulting)
Season 4 Episode 5 – Talking Data With... Katy Snell & Alice Laird (Howard Kennedy)
Season 4 Episode 4 – Talking Data With... Tudor Borlea (Collibra)
Season 4 Episode 3 – Talking Data With... Cheryl Ashman (White & Case)
Season 4 Episode 2 – Talking Data With... James Markham (Dentons)
Season 4 Episode 1 – Talking Data With… Simone Pozniak (Webber Wentzel)
The podcast is free to listen to, and for most platforms, no account or login is needed. So why not start listening now and set up your Data Governance journey for success?
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That’s it for this month!
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