MetaDAMA - Data Management in the Nordics

«Data Mesh promises so much, so of course everyone is talking about it.» I had the pleasure to chat with Karin Håkansson about Data Governance in a Mesh. Karin has worked with Data Governance and Data Mesh and is really active in the Data Mesh Community, speaking at podcasts and moderating the LinkedIn Group « Data Governance - Data Mesh » Here are my key takeaways from our conversation: Data in R...

«If we think of Data Mesh as an evolution of data lakes, knowledge graphs are an evolution of Master Data Management.» Data overload is becoming a real challenge for all types of businesses. With all data that is gathered, both in multiple formats and huge volumes, has created a need for connected, contextualized data. Combined with continuing developments in AI, has resulted in increasing interes...

«How can you use AI algorithms to make your city more sustainable?» How can we use AI to work more sustainable and optimize our operations for less pollution and more efficiency? I talked with Umair, Head of Data Science, Data Warehouse and Artificial Intelligence at Ruter AS, the public transport authority in the Oslo region, the Norwegian capital. Umair is also a associate professor at OsloMet,...

🗓️ 1 Year 🎙️ 2 Podcasts 💡7 Lessons 👨‍💻 50 Data Leaders Together with Loris Marini , host of the great data podcast Discovering Data , I had a chat live for a retrospect on a fantastic podcast year 2022. Combined, we have had the pleasure to talk to over 50 Data Leaders in 2022 and shared their message with our listeners. Here are our 7 lessons for 2023: 1. Lead: Data is a shared asset with shar...

«Its not just about the use of data, but the use of data in a cross-functional setting.» What a fantastic conversation with Nina Walberg. Nina has been with Oda since 2019 and has a background in Optimization and SCM from NTNU. Oda strive  to create a society where people have more space for life. Make life as hassle-free as possible. And to achievetis with help from data, Oda has created its 6 pr...

«If you do guidance correctly, people will follow it. People want to do the correct thing. Nobody wants to do things wrong.» From fisherman on Island to Data MVP in Copenhagen! Ásgeir Gunnarsson has been through a fantastic journey and we had a great conversation around PowerBI Governance. Asgeir has his own blog about the topic . Here are my key takeaways: Think of platforms at a translation: You...

«If you think about how we can work effectively together, you need to look at how you can effectuate your delivery teams. » I had the pleasure of chatting with Trond Sogn-Lunden from Veidekke, one of the biggest construction contractors in the Nordics. The construction industry is characterized by Merger and Acquisition. This is an interesting setting and reflects the importance to understand the...

«Think of data availability as online vs. offline.» What much of the discussions around data products, data catalogs, self-service boil down to is data discoverability, observability and availability. I talked to Ivan Karlovic, Director of Data Analytics and Master Data at Norwegian about these topics and gained some fantastic insights. Ivan always loved analytics and using data to improve the bus...

"The data lifecycles collides with the system lifecycles. It’s a classic." Let’s talk about the paradoxes of Data: Data Lifecyle, Search and Data Catalog!  What a fantastic chat Ole Olesen-Bagneux and I had! Ole is writing his O’Reilly book Enterprise Data Catalog, has newsletter Symphony of Search . He brings in a new perspective from Library and Information Science and is a great advoc...

"Data is mainly used to create value for customers, both inside the company and outside!"  Customer centric is one of the great mantras in data at the time. I wanted to get to the bottom of what Customer Experience actually means. So, whom better to as then Leif Eric Fredheim, Customer Insights Manager at Elkjøp and one of the top 100 Data, Analytics and AI professionals in the Nordics?...

“The closer you are to the business, the great the chance to make an impact with data!”  In this episode I interviewed Marti Colominas, VP Head of Data & Insight at reMarkable. When we had our chat this summer, Marti was still working as Head of Data for Kahoot!.  Marti combines business with data and works on a daily basis for value creation and balance on the crossroads between business and...

Welcome to Season 2 of MetaDAMA! The first episode is dedicated to DAMA. I talked to Marilu Lopez, Leader of the Presidents Council for DAMA, Peter Aiken, President of DAMA International, and Achillefs Tsitsonis, President of DAMA Norway. We had a great conversation about the vision and mission of the voluntary, vendor-independent organization DAMA and its value for the knowledge worker community,...

Is the EU providing the legal framework for data-driven value creation? Digitalization is a focus area for the European commission, and at its core, the European digital strategy is a data strategy - digitalization is focused on data. The goal is to utilize the value of data and give better conditions to SMB in the European marked. I was fortunate to talk to Astrid Solhaug from DigDir, working for...

Are we living "The Truman Show"? I had a chat with Mads Flensted Hauge, Chairman of DAMA Denmark and DPO and Data Governance Manager at a Danish health care provider. We looked at Data Privacy from four different perspectives: The society perspective  What is data privacy and why is it important?   How transparent are we as citizens? What considerations need to take place when we talk ab...

Everyone who ever played with Legos knows that the bricks don't just fall into place. It takes dedication, finding the right brick at the right time, maybe even sorting your bricks. The same goes for Data Governance. So whom better to ask about Data Governance, then the Director of Data Governance at the Lego Group, Michael Bendixen? Michael was really clear in his message to all of us, by gi...

Can you put a value on quality data? Definitely! But how? Who better to ask than Kristin Otter Rønnevig and Espen Hjelmeland? They both dedicated their master thesis to explore this topic with really interesting results. Their thesis "An Investment Perspective on Data Quality in Data Usage" asks "How can an organization optimize its investments in data quality?" To answer the q...

Espen Langbråten is leading Europris' bet on digital platform, data warehouse, and analytics. We had a great talk about everything data, but at the core we discussed three questions:  How do you build your team? How to recruit and build competencies in an ever-changing environment whilst keeping an eye on cost? What resources do you need in house? What can you outsource to a consultancy? Here...

What has been the hot topic in Norway this winter? Energy prices. The prices for energy skyrocketed. But how does this relate to data? Can we save energy with Data Management? The answer might be on the infrastructure side. And since "the color of Data centers is Green!", I took this question to Espen Bjarnes, who works as VP Sales for Green Mountain, one of the most sustainable data cen...

How can you democratize data from Norway’s public services? What does it mean to have a user centric approach to public services? What needs to be in place to organize your organization, the public services as a whole, while maintaining focus on good services to your citizens? I had the pleasure of chatting with Gustav Aagesen, Chief Data Officer at Lånekassen. The Norwegian State Educational Loan...

How can you set up your services to have technology support your data journey? How do you work with tech procurement? And what is the impact of Data Mesh , especially for data governance ? How to evaluate which consumer need to satisfy first? How to prioritize what is important to create value? I chatted with Bente Busch , who is leading the Service Platform Team at NAV, the Norwegian Labour and W...

You cannot outsource Data Ethics! For this episode I talked to Sami Laine, Competence Lead at Siili Solutions and President of DAMA Finland. Sami has both the academic background as well as the in the trenches experience in Data Governance, Data Quality, Master Data Management and working with Data Ethics and Artificial Intelligence (AI).   For Sami, everybody working with data needs a basic under...

Målet for Skatteetaten er å bli datadrevet og bidra til å skape en datadrevet offentlig forvaltning, med målsetning å tilby raskere og bedre tjenster til innbyggerne. Jeg har snakket med Torstein Hoem, direktør for divisjon for Informasjonsforvaltning i Skatteetaten. Skatteetaten har satt Information Management på dagsorden for hele organisasjonen. Informasjonsforvaltning har blitt en egen divisjo...

More and more businesses understand the need to become data-driven in a competitive market. Earlier, data was looked at as a supplement to the business operations. But using data as a valuable asset, has become part of the core business strategy for many companies I talked with Rushanth Vathanagopalan, Head of Data at the CoE for Data and Analytics at Storebrand, a Norwegian financial services com...

Demand Side Data Management comes from the notion to provide value to customers as our highest outcome and has been around as a concept for demand side data quality for a while. We let the consumer decide what data quality he needs to create value with the data.  But can we widen that approach to a Data Management as a Service model? Can we put Data Management into a chain of custody? Aiko Yamashi...

Data Mesh og produktivisering av data er noe av de mest omtalte tema i dataarkitektur, og mange har blitt fascinert av mulighetene. Kjetil Rønning, Manager, Enterprise Data, Architecture and Analytics, i Equinor snakker med meg om dette og andre tema i denne episoden. Kjetil og jeg deler våre tanker rundt følgende: Hva legger vi i data mesh? Hva betyr domenebasert tilnærming? Er tankegangen rundt...