Readiness assessment
Explore six dimensions, preserve unknowns and download a prioritised planning report.
Run the assessmentTOOLS, TEMPLATES & FIELD NOTES
Practical resources. Open by design.
Use the tools and templates without an email gate. When you need help implementing them, that is where the consulting work begins.
Working templates
Start a register, decision log, rule catalogue or vendor review without buying a platform.
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Cost of data rework
Model the capacity consumed by repeat data correction using your own assumptions.
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Governance charter builder
Create a first-draft charter for one data domain, with your own scope and decision roles.
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Source & framework library
Official context, review dates and clear distinctions between guidance and assurance.
Review the sourcesRead the field notes.
Your first 90 days of data governance
Start with one business decision. Build the smallest working system around it. Expand only after the first cycle teaches you something.
Read the field noteOwner, steward or custodian: who decides?
The point of a role model is not to invent more titles. It is to stop important questions disappearing between business and technical teams.
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AI-ready data is more than clean data
A tidy document collection can still be the wrong collection for an AI system to use.
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Before the vendor demo becomes your data decision
A clear use-case worksheet makes a vendor review more useful than a generic yes/no security questionnaire.
Read the field noteA quality score needs a denominator
“Our data is 98% accurate” is not a useful management statement unless someone can explain what was tested.
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A privacy policy is not the operating process
Translate an approved requirement into a trigger, an owner, a system action and evidence that the action happened.
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NEW / THE VISUAL FIELDGUIDEMake the complex
Make the complex
easier to explain.
Ownership, lineage, quality and lifecycle—made concrete through twelve visual explanations, practical questions and connected service scopes.
Explore the visual fieldguideSTART WITH A CONVERSATION
Make your next data decision a clearer one.
Tell us what is not working. We will discuss a sensible starting scope.
FROM THE WORKING DESKGood governance.
Good governance.
In everyday practice.
Practical field notes for the decisions between the strategy and the finished process.
Make the business case without inventing the return.
Start with an observable operational problem. Separate the cost of repeated work from the cash your organisation could actually save.
Read the field noteOne metric. One meaning. A useful glossary workshop.
A glossary becomes useful when it resolves a real disagreement and connects the agreed meaning to the calculation, owner and permitted use.
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A small data change can have a long shadow.
Renamed fields, revised definitions and access changes need an understandable route from request to impact review, approval, testing and handoff.
Read the field noteA governance meeting should finish with decisions.
Build a review rhythm around exceptions, unresolved questions and evidence of how the process is working—not a growing collection of status slides.
Read the field noteA SMALLER, CLEARER FIRST STEPBring a problem.
Bring a problem.
Leave with a brief.
Choose one decision, name the people involved and set an evidence boundary before anyone asks for your data.
Prepare your project brief01
Choose the decision
Name the report, workflow or use case that needs to work better.
02
Set the boundary
Identify the owner, allowed evidence and important exclusions.
03
Define useful completion
Agree what a colleague should be able to repeat or verify.
DEEP ORIGINAL GUIDES
Implementation details for the people doing the work.
Read how to define rules, document decisions, run a review or choose the right kind of assurance.
ACCOUNTABILITY WORKSHOP
A data governance RACI that answers a real question.
Make ownership visible without turning an organisational chart into a second approval bureaucracy.
Explore this topic ↗QUALITY OPERATIONS
Write data quality rules your teams can actually test.
Replace generic accuracy percentages with clear populations, tolerances, owners and exception responses.
Explore this topic ↗INVENTORY AND LINEAGE
A data catalog is not the same as knowing what you have.
Choose practical inventory fields, confirm owners and connect important assets to uses before buying catalog software.
Explore this topic ↗THIRD-PARTY EXIT
Plan the vendor exit before handing over your data.
Practical questions about copies, access removal, retention and evidence when a contract ends.
Explore this topic ↗BOARD OVERSIGHT
Questions a board can ask about data risk without becoming the IT department.
Understand decision ownership, critical information, recurring issues and the limits of management assurance.
Explore this topic ↗LIFECYCLE AND RETENTION
A data retention schedule needs a workflow, not just a number of years.
Translate approved retention decisions into owned actions, exceptions and records of completion.
Explore this topic ↗BUYER EDUCATION
Data governance diagnostic, internal audit or certification: what are you actually buying?
Choose the right type of help—and avoid paying for an assurance claim that an operational workshop cannot provide.
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