What is Data Strategy? “Well, the short answer is, it’s the data chapter of your business strategy,” said John Ladley, consultant and author of the book Data Governance: How to Design, Deploy and Sustain an Effective Data Governance Program. Contrary to popular belief, the one thing it isn’t, he said, is a technology procurement plan. […]
In this week’s patent news – Delhi High Court notifies final Intellectual Property Rights Division Rules 2022 and Rules Governing Patent Suits 2022; Need for Stronger Enforcement Provisions in cases of IPR Infringement, says CJI NV Ramana; EU files case against China at WTO; No company currently dominates the 5G technology realm, says USPTO; Activision and Blizzard settle patent dispute; European Commission to consider new time limits for FRAND licensing negotiations; ICC Centre of Entrepreneurship and WIPO collaborate to empower…
An Islamic scholar, Irshad Ahmad Ijaz, has asserted that digital currency is not fake currency and that it should be legitimized once certain conditions are met. Ijaz’s viewpoint is echoed by other scholars that attended a seminar examining the status of digital currencies from the perspective of Islamic law. Use of Crypto in the Digital […]
India’s first ever National Seminar on the Adjudication of IP Rights Disputes took place this weekend, with updates on the Delhi High Court’s IP Division and a high-level rallying cry that “this is the time to calibrate IP adjudication across the country”.
Data Quality dimensions are useful concepts for improving the quality of data assets. Although Data Quality dimensions have been promoted for many years, descriptions of how to actually use them have often been somewhat vague. Data that is considered to be of high quality is consistent and unambiguous. Poor Data Quality results in inconsistent and […]
Ontario’s cannabis retail market has grown fast but has also reached a point where competition is intense, and it is becoming challenging for retailers to differentiate themselves. While big retail chains are expanding aggressively, some independent shops like Highland Cannabis are focusing on being the best cannabis store in their area. Spearheaded by former corporate executives, Owen and Niki Allerton, Highland Cannabis in Kitchener is amongst Ontario’s top 10 cannabis stores in terms of sales, and customers from far and away take the highway regularly to visit this exceptionally well-managed cannabis store.
As we kick off the new year, it’s important to consider the unique challenges facing enterprises when it comes to managing databases. We’ve seen data and databases grow exponentially with each passing year. This added growth also brings added complexity, resulting in increased difficulty for database professionals to monitor application performance and mitigate issues as […]
Way back in the early 2000s, Data Governance wasn’t really much of a thing. There were a few really early pioneers that were doing Data Governance, and they were laying the groundwork, but governance was not a recognized capability. Companies who did see some value in Data Governance were primarily focused on the benefit to […]
The COVID-19 pandemic has meant that data-driven decisions have influenced all our lives over the last two years. But decisions made without proper data foundations, such as well-constructed and updated data models, can lead to potentially disastrous results. For example, the Imperial College London epidemiology data model was used by the U.K. Government in 2020 […]