We've seen the challenges that pop up when relying on spreadsheet templates and the resulting frustration from users when they are forced to grapple with submitting their data using one.

We've come to a worrying conclusion: asking users to fill out spreadsheet templates in the way we do it today does not meet user needs and should not be used as a design pattern in usable and accessible government services.

This article aims to clarify what we believe the key aspects of being a Data Architect are, based on our experience, shedding light on the various skills and tasks that data architects undertake to enable effective data utilisation and decision-making.

A Chief Data Officer (CDO) is a senior executive who is responsible for how the organisation utilises and governs their data. Let’s take a look at some of the biggest challenges Chief Data Officers face and how to ensure success in this important role

Whenever you work with data, you will invariably want to move it somewhere, be it to a different location, application or even just a different format. With this process there can be a variety of challenges and so in this article, we will walk through four of the main challenges when dealing with data migration.

CDO as a service is a cost effective and flexible way to support senior-level leadership with data expertise. Find out more about what this new service is and how it can help you to capitalise on your organisation’s data assets, become more data-driven and to stay ahead of the competition.

In this article we focus on some of the common issues that we’ve seen appear specifically in startup organisations. Here are our 4 top tips on how to overcome the biggest data governance mistakes startups often make.

If you work with data, you will surely have a view on data governance and its importance to an organisation’s success. A well-crafted data governance strategy is vital in today’s fast-moving and competitive market. In an earlier article, we explored what data governance is and why it is important. Now, let’s look at some of the key benefits of data governance.

If you have lots of data but somehow struggle to actually do anything useful with it, you probably have a data literacy problem. Everyone in your organisation needs to have some data literacy, and that doesn’t mean technical skills. Data literacy avoids wasted effort and the best way to spread it is by example.

For organisations and modern businesses the management of data and how they use it is becoming a critical part of that organisation’s success. This article explores what data governance really is and why it is important to get right.

Real world objects are often more complicated than simple databases really understand, and trying to fit those complications into the rigid type system of SQL is much like fitting a round peg into a square hole.

In the Internet era, the data problems we have are different. In this first in a series of posts, we’ll examine how the different ways that people create and use data today impacts how we must shape a data architecture.

Something is very wrong with personal data in Government. Citizens still submit their personal data using paper and pictures of letters, and services bear the burden of low-quality evidence. Why isn’t Government more joined up in it’s data sharing, what are the dangers, and how do we solve this problem once and for all?

Technical trust and legal trust are both insufficient by themselves to ensure protection of valuable data. Instead we need a vehicle that combines the two to allow data use to be auditable and acceptable practice to be enforcable. In this post we discuss this concept of a data trust, explore what benefits they could bring and how they could be achieved.