Databewuster, the podcast

Conversations with CDOs, data managers and specialists on data quality, governance and data strategy. Every episode has a summary, the topics covered and the full transcript, so you can read instead of listen if that suits you better. The conversations are recorded in Dutch; the summaries and topics are written in English.

Episode 19

A euro in technology is not a euro in productivity

A euro spent on technology only becomes a euro of productivity once the employee working with it performs better. Data teams build products for proces…

Guest: Maarten van den Outenaar

Episode 18

Data in order takes leadership, not just tooling

Getting data in order takes leadership rather than tooling. AI only delivers on a solid data foundation, which means definitions that hold, data maint…

Guest: Martijn Scheele

Episode 17

Data has to land in daily practice

Why data work only pays off once it lands in daily practice, and what usually stands between a good model and a changed routine.…

Guest: Erwin Jager

Episode 16

From civil engineering to CDO: a journey through data and social impact

A route from civil engineering to Chief Data Officer, and what that background brings to data work and to social impact.…

Guest: Taeke van der Laan

Episode 15

Data centricity: the road to success in the modern organisation

Data centricity as a route to success in a modern organisation, and what has to change in how decisions are made before the term means anything.…

Guest: Aldwin Tito

Episode 14

The CDO of the digital city

What the role of a Chief Data Officer looks like in a large public organisation: connecting the ambition of the board with what happens daily in the p…

Guest: Mustafa Akpolat

Episode 13

The bridge between data strategy and data quality in practice

The bridge between data strategy and data quality, and why the two are usually managed separately even though neither works without the other.…

Guest: Julien

Episode 12

Data strategy in practice

Data strategy in practice, including what changes once the strategy has to survive contact with daily operations and competing priorities.…

Guest: Jaap Franse and Henk Breunissen

Episode 11

Effective data strategy: from theory to practice

Turning a data strategy from theory into something that works, by tying it to objectives that already exist instead of writing a separate document alo…

Guest: Henk Breunissen and Luuk Pauwels

Episode 9

Building data awareness as part of data governance

Building data awareness in a global organisation: reaching thousands of employees across dozens of countries through peer-to-peer learning, practical …

Guest: Frans Klaassen

Episode 8

Metadata deep dive

A deep dive into metadata: why it is context rather than data about data, and why governance cannot function without it. A data item you cannot descri…

Guest: Shannon Els

Episode 7

The power of leadership and collaboration in data management

The role of leadership and collaboration in data management, and why the technical part is rarely the reason a programme succeeds or stalls.…

Guest: Mark van der Veen

Episode 6

Working together on data quality: from strategy to practice in data management

Working on data quality across the gap between strategy and practice, and why the handover between the two is where most data management programmes lo…

Guest: Nico Kohlberg and René Wiertz

Episode 5

The tactical data quality layer of the Metro model

The tactical layer of the Metro model, where direction becomes standards, roles and ownership. This is the layer most often skipped, which is why meas…

Guest: Ruud Kuil

Episode 4

The strategic data quality layer of the Metro model

The strategic layer of the Metro model: tying data quality to goals the organisation already has, so it competes for attention on equal terms rather t…

Guest: Vincent Lassauw

Episode 2

The operational layer of data quality in the Metro model

What the operational layer of data quality looks like in practice: analysing, tracing errors, cleaning data and improving the process that produced th…

Guest: Aris Prins

Episode 1

Improve your own data quality with the Metro model

How to structure data quality management using the Metro model, a framework built on ISO 9001 by the data quality working group of DAMA Netherlands. I…

Guest: Peter van Nederpelt and Marco Heij