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Abel Aboh's 10 Commandments of Data Management
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Episode Title: Abel Aboh’s 10 commandments of Data Management

Guest Title: Data Management Leader | Data Quality & Governance Expert

Episode Summary: Abel Aboh started his professional journey in Human Resources but transformed himself into a data management leader. Over the years, Abel was able to deal with all aspects of data management like data governance & data quality and establish a framework of 10 commandments of data management. These 10 commandments helped Abel to establish data culture and increase data literacy in organizations where he worked.

Topics discussed in this episode:

  •  Human Resources to Data Management (03:21): Abel started off in HR with BAE systems but was selected to join a team to put together data governance and data quality because of his ability to understand business needs and how technology can help.
  • Passionate about Data, People, Process, Technology (05:50): Abel believes that people with a passion for data and focus on people, process, and technology will do quite well in their data management career.
  • 10 commandments of data management (10:12): (1) Right team who understand business & technical aspects (2) Great communication (3) Change management (4) Relevant framework (5) Blueprint/Enterprise view (6) Technology (7) Sponsorship (8) Accessibility (9) Active listening (10) Support 
  • Importance of data literacy (14:55): The essence of the 10 commandments is to increase data literacy  and establish a data culture in organizations. 
  • Data quality (18:34): Taking BAE systems as an example, the primary business goal was delivering projects on time. To do that, needed to make sure that the data they were dealing with was of the highest quality. Without that, there was no guarantee that projects would be delivered as projected.
  • Data maturity and data cycle (21:11): Many industries in UK had to deal with massive influx of data over the last few years. And not all companies were in the same position to deal with this influx of data. Alos, they needed to deal with tracking the data across the overall data cycle from initial capture to all the way to archiving it.

Call to action:

Connect with Abel Aboh on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/abelaboh/ 

Connect with Abel Aboh on Twitter: https://twitter.com/abel_DMChampion 


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