Artikelen door Free Frogs

Data Governance Maturity Models – Useless! Or not?

Data Governance maturity models can be a powerful tool for formulating improvement plans, communicating concepts and measuring progress, but they only work well when tailored to the specific context of the organisation. I used to be convinced that Data Governance maturity models were highly overrated, with little or no added value. Nice pictures if you were […]

Structured or unstructured data. What is the story?

Everyone who works with data tries to express that digital information has many forms. In order to distinguish the different types of challenge that different information structures throw at us, we have come up with words as ‘structured’, ‘unstructured’ and ‘raw’ data. We use these words a lot, but they have an ambiguous meaning. This […]

The Benefits of Data Governance

Data Governance can be a hard sell. What can we do about it? I was talking to a colleague the other day who was bemoaning the fact that Data Governance can sometimes be a really hard sell and I recognized what he meant. In some ways it’s similar to electricity. Or your wifi. When it […]

5 Tips for Agile Data Governance

Agile Data Governance contains the same building blocks as traditional Data Governance. The key difference is approach. The more adaptive approach of Agile makes a big difference, both with effectiveness, and with how quickly we experience the benefits. Agile used to be applied predominantly to software development. It’s now recognised that Agile methods have significant […]

Free Frogs introduceert datagedreven aanpak woonfraude

Woonfraude en adresfraude is een groot maatschappelijk probleem. Als Free Frogs hebben we een datagedreven aanpak om woonfraude tegen te gaan en er voor te zorgen dat meer woningen beschikbaar komen voor mensen die daar recht op hebben. Free Frogs organiseert in het najaar een mini-symposium voor woningcorporaties en gemeenten over een datagedreven aanpak van […]

Martijn ten Napel houdt succesvolle presentatie op DMZ Düsseldorf

Martijn ten Napel van Free Frogs heeft op 24 september onder de titel “Combatting Complexity through Simplification” een zeer succesvolle presentatie gehouden op de Data Modeling Zone (DMZ) in Düsseldorf. In de late middag nam hij daarnaast deel aan een zeer levendige (zeker gezien het tijdstip!) panel-discussie over de kunst van de data-architectuur en het […]